title: Disordered neighborhood environments and risk-taking propensity in late childhood through adolescence.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the relationship between childhood neighborhood environment and risk-taking propensity in adolescence by using an objective environmental measure and a laboratory-based risk-taking propensity measure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Childhood neighborhood disorder predicted risk-taking propensity on a behavioral measure during early adolescence (β = 1.8, p < .01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Early toxic environments affect laboratory-based behavioral manifestations of risk.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. dholden@jhsph.edu
authors.forename: C Debra M
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Furr-Holden
authors.forename: Adam J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Milam
authors.forename: Elizabeth K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Macpherson
authors.forename: Carl W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Lejuez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004219:District of Columbia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012309:Risk-Taking