title: Neighborhood context and immigrant young children's development.
abstract: This study explored how neighborhood social processes and resources, relevant to immigrant families and immigrant neighborhoods, contribute to young children's behavioral functioning and achievement across diverse racial/ethnic groups. Data were drawn from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a neighborhood-based, longitudinal study with cohorts of children first seen at birth, 3 years, and 6 years of age and followed over 6 years (N = 3,209; 37% Mexican American, 33% Black, 15% White, 9% Puerto Rican, 4% other Latino, and 2% other races/ethnicities; 44% immigrant). Results of multilevel models suggest that the immigrant status of children's families was a more consistent moderator of associations between neighborhood processes and children's development than the immigrant concentration of their neighborhoods, but the nature of these associations depended on the outcome and racial/ethnic group considered. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).
authors.affiliation: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development.
authors.forename: Tama
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Leventhal
authors.affiliation: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development.
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Shuey
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012111:Residence Characteristics