title: The Home and the 'Hood: Associations between Housing and Neighborhood Contexts and Adolescent Functioning.
abstract: Adolescents from low-income families face various opportunities and constraints as they develop, with possible ramifications for their well-being. Two contexts of particular importance are the home and the neighborhood. Using adolescent data from the first two waves of the Three City Study (N= 1,169), this study explored associations among housing problems and neighborhood disorder with adolescents' socioemotional problems, and how these associations varied by parental monitoring and gender. Results of hierarchical linear models suggest that poor quality housing was most predictive of the functioning of girls and of adolescents with restrictive curfews, whereas neighborhood disorder was a stronger predictor for boys. Implications for future research on associations between housing and neighborhood contexts and adolescent development are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, 105 College Avenue, Medford, MA 02155.
authors.forename: Margaret C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Elliott
authors.affiliation: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, 105 College Avenue, Medford, MA 02155.
authors.forename: Tama
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Leventhal
authors.affiliation: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, 105 College Avenue, Medford, MA 02155.
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Shuey
authors.affiliation: Lynch School of Education, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.
authors.forename: Alicia Doyle
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.affiliation: Lynch School of Education, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.
authors.forename: Rebekah Levine
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Coley
keywords: adolescence; anxiety; delinquency; depression; gender; housing problems; neighborhood disorder; parental monitoring; somatization