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Objective and Subjective Approaches to Examining Neighborhood Environments for Youth Development

Fri, April 9, 2:45 to 4:15pm EDT (2:45 to 4:15pm EDT), Virtual

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Abstract

Neighborhood contexts are salient for youth development (Leventhal, Dupéré, & Shuey, 2015). There are a variety of approaches to examining neighborhood effects, including objective (e.g., census data, systematic social observations) and subjective (e.g., self-report) measures. Across the papers, researchers explore a range of developmental constructs (e.g., socialization, ethnic-racial identity, self-regulation) within the context of various neighborhood characteristics (e.g., ethnic-racial compositions, socioeconomic disadvantage) using diverse methods (e.g., census data, systematic social observations, survey, qualitative interviews). Paper 1 examines whether objective and subjective neighborhood characteristics moderate the association between ethnic-racial socialization and social, emotional, and cognitive development among Latinx and Black adolescents. Paper 2 characterizes patterns in exposure to diverse ethnic-racial compositions across mothers’ neighborhoods and activity spaces and relates these to maternal socialization of Latinx adolescents. Paper 3 uses systematic social observations in Google Street View to examine how characteristics of the school neighborhood environment are related to youths’ self-regulatory skills. Paper 4 uses quantitative and qualitative methods to compare and contrast assessments of Latinx neighborhood characteristics as observed by researchers’ objective systematic social observations and U.S. Mexican adolescents’ subjective narratives. Collectively, the papers utilize various approaches to assess neighborhood factors and shed light on the implications of neighborhoods for development across diverse youth.

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