ERIC Number: EJ1012963
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Jun
Pages: 9
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Is Growing up Affluent Risky for Adolescents or Is the Problem Growing up in an Affluent Neighborhood?
Lund, Terese J.; Dearing, Eric
Journal of Research on Adolescence, v23 n2 p274-282 Jun 2013
Community studies indicating that affluence has social-emotional consequences for youth have conflated family and neighborhood wealth. We examined adolescent boys' delinquency and adolescent girls' anxiety-depression as a function of family, neighborhood, and cumulative affluence in a sample that is primarily of European-American descent, but geographically and economically diverse ("N" = 1,364). Boys in affluent neighborhoods reported higher levels of delinquency and girls in affluent neighborhoods reported higher levels of anxiety-depression compared with youth in middle-class neighborhoods. Neither family affluence nor cumulative affluence, however, placed boys or girls at risk in these domains. Indeed, boys' delinquency and girls' anxiety-depression levels were lowest for those in affluent families living in middle-class neighborhoods. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Risk, Adolescents, Neighborhoods, At Risk Persons, Social Development, Emotional Development, Males, Delinquency, Females, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Place of Residence, Whites, Gender Differences, Comparative Analysis, Family Income, Parent Influence, Mothers, Birth Order, Educational Attainment, Personality Traits
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Arkansas; California; Kansas; Massachusetts; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; Virginia; Washington; Wisconsin
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: NEO Personality Inventory; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; Child Behavior Checklist
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