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      An examination of social disorganization and pluralistic neighborhood theories with rural mothers and their adolescents.

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      Journal of youth and adolescence
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          Neighborhoods matter for youth; yet, most literature focuses on neighborhood deficits rather than strengths. To understand how best to capture neighborhoods, this study used census- and perception-based measures of neighborhood characteristics as suggested by social disorganization and pluralistic neighborhood theories, respectively, to determine the association between structural characteristics and perceptions of positive and negative neighborhood characteristics. The ethnically diverse (59% White and 34% African American) sample (N = 1,414) consisted of early adolescents (53% female) and their mothers. We found that participants perceived distinct positive and negative neighborhood characteristics. For adolescents and mothers, neighborhood structural characteristics were positively associated with risk perceptions (e.g., physical and social disorder) but differently associated with positive neighborhood characteristics. In addition, participants perceived their neighborhoods differently (e.g., adolescents perceived less informal social control but more cohesion than their mothers). We discuss the importance of the neighborhood context, particularly positive neighborhood characteristics, for rural families.

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          Journal
          J Youth Adolesc
          Journal of youth and adolescence
          Springer Nature
          1573-6601
          0047-2891
          Sep 2011
          : 40
          : 9
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 100 East Franklin Street, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. dwithers@email.unc.edu
          Article
          NIHMS594791
          10.1007/s10964-009-9499-4
          4059188
          20047085
          773229c8-b0e7-4ba4-af46-ef5be0d1f916
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