Neighborhood Effects on Youth Substance Use in a Southwestern City

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2482151
AutoresKuli (0000-0002-9890-0706, Arizona State University, autor correspondente), Stephen Kuli, Stephen Kulis (Arizona State University), Flavio Francisco Marsiglia (0000-0002-5622-3620, Arizona State University), Diane Sicotte (0000-0001-5872-1108, Drexel University), T Nieri (0000-0002-5878-1802, Arizona State University)
Ano2007
Volume50
Fascículo2
Páginas273-301
Data de publicação2007-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1525/sop.2007.50.2.273
PMID21339890
PMCIDPMC3040571
OpenAlexW2137455982
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas45
Referências citadas87

This study examines neighborhood influences on alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use among a predominantly Latino middle school sample. Drawing on theories of immigrant adaptation and segmented assimilation, the authors test whether neighborhood immigrant, ethnic, and socioeconomic composition, violent crime, residential instability, and family structure have differential effects on substance use among youth from different ethnic and acculturation backgrounds. Data are drawn from self-reports from 3,721 seventh-grade students attending thirty-five Phoenix, Arizona, middle schools. Analysis was restricted to the two largest ethnic groups, Latino students of Mexican heritage and non-Hispanic Whites. After adjusting for individual-level characteristics and school-level random effects, only one neighborhood effect was found for the sample overall, an undesirable impact of neighborhood residential instability on recent cigarette use. Subgroup analyses by individual ethnicity and acculturation showed more patterned neighborhood effects. Living in neighborhoods with high proportions of recent immigrants was protective against alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use for Latino students at different acculturation levels, whereas living in predominantly Mexican heritage neighborhoods (mostly nonimmigrants) was a risk factor for alcohol and marijuana use for less acculturated Latinos. There were scattered effects of neighborhood poverty and crime, which predicted more cigarette and alcohol use, respectively, but only among more acculturated Latinos. Inconsistent effects confined to bilingual and more acculturated Latinos were found for the neighborhood's proportion of single-mother families and its residential instability. No neighborhood effects emerged for non-Hispanic White students. Results suggested that disadvantaged neighborhoods increase substance use among some ethnic minority youth, but immigrant enclaves appear to provide countervailing protections

Acculturation · Disadvantaged · Ethnic group · Geography · Immigration · Political science · Population · Poverty · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies