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Ross, Catherine E. – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2011
A threatening and dangerous neighborhood may produce distressing emotions of anxiety, anger, and depression among the individuals who live there because residents find these neighborhoods subjectively alienating. The author introduces the idea that neighborhood disorder indicates collective threat, which is alienating--shaping perceptions of…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Trust (Psychology), Disadvantaged, Depression (Psychology)
Ross, Catherine E.; Mirowsky, John – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2009
Living in a threatening, noxious, and dangerous neighborhood may produce anxiety, anger, and depression because it is subjectively alienating. We hypothesize that neighborhood disorder represents ambient threat that elicits perceptions of powerlessness, normlessness, mistrust, and isolation. These perceptions in turn lead to anxious and angry…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Isolation, Disadvantaged Environment, Quality of Life
Kim, Joongbaeck; Ross, Catherine E. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2009
Is neighborhood-specific social support the most effective type of social support for buffering the effect of neighborhood disorder on depression? Matching theory suggests that it is. The authors extend the research on neighborhood disorder and adult depression by showing that individuals who have higher levels of both general and…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Support Groups, Depression (Psychology), Social Networks
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Ross, Catherine E.; Mirowsky, John – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1999
Reports on a national sample of adults (N=2,592) surveyed on the association between adult depression and childhood parental divorce. Results suggest that parental divorce may disrupt a person's life course and create lifelong consequences for their well being, by lowering socioeconomic status and increasing problems in interpersonal…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Depression (Psychology), Divorce