Neighborhood structural inequality, collective efficacy, and sexual risk behavior among urban youth.
We draw on collective efficacy theory to extend a contextual model of early adolescent sexual behavior. Specifically, we hypothesize that neighborhood structural disadvantage--as measured by levels of concentrated poverty, residential instability, and aspects of immigrant concentration--and diminished collective efficacy have consequences for the prevalence of early adolescent multiple sexual partnering. Findings from random effects multinomial logistic regression models of the number of sexual partners among a sample of youth, age 11 to 16, from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (N = 768) reveal evidence of neighborhood effects on adolescent higher-risk sexual activity. Collective efficacy is negatively associated with having two or more sexual partners versus one (but not zero versus one) sexual partner. The effect of collective efficacy is dependent upon age: The regulatory effect of collective efficacy increases for older adolescents.
Browning
Christopher R
CR
Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1353, USA. browning.90@osu.edu
Burrington
Lori A
LA
Leventhal
Tama
T
Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D011203:Poverty; D015995:Prevalence; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014505:Urban Population
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