The Influence of Neighborhood Quality on Adolescents' Educational Values and School Effort

Autor/inn/en	Ceballo, Rosario; McLoyd, Vonnie C.; Toyokawa, Teru
Titel	The Influence of Neighborhood Quality on Adolescents' Educational Values and School Effort
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent Research, 19 (2004) 6, S.716-739 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-5584
DOI	10.1177/0743558403260021
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Academic Ability; Early Adolescents; Gender Differences; Neighborhoods; Poverty; African Americans; Self Concept; Student Attitudes; Social Values; One Parent Family; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Geschlechterkonflikt; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Armut; Afroamerikaner; Selbstkonzept; Schülerverhalten; Sozialer Wert; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; USA
Abstract	Interview data from a sample of 262 poor African American single mothers and their 7th-and 8th-grade children were used to investigate the relations between neighborhood conditions and adolescents' educational values and school effort. The model tested incorporates both subjective and objective assessments of neighborhood quality and controls for several family-and school-related constructs. United States Census data on household incomes served as an objective measure of neighborhood quality. In the full sample, the findings revealed that the percentage of middle-class neighbors and self-perceived academic abilities were significantly linked to adolescents' educational values, which were, in turn, related to school effort. Several theories identifying the processes by which neighborhood characteristics influence adolescents' educational values are discussed. Gender differences emerged when the model was tested separately for females and males. For African American females, but not for adolescent males, neighborhood conditions were associated with educational values. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10