Gender Differences of Neighborhood and Social Control Processes

A Study of the Timing of First Intercourse among Low-achieving, Urban, African American Youth

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2328652
AutoresJesus Ramirez-Valles (0000-0002-2419-9136, University of Illinois Chicago, autor correspondente), Marc A Zimmerman (0000-0001-5064-4259, University of Michigan), Lucia Juarez (0000-0002-3488-7661, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Ano2002
Volume33
Fascículo3
Páginas418-441
Data de publicação2002-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoYouth & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0044-118X • E-ISSN: 1552-8499
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0044118x02033003004
OpenAlexW2032403276
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas49
Referências citadas50

This study examines the gender-specific contextual and individual socioeconomic predictors of the timing of first intercourse among low-achieving African American youth. Following financial deprivation and collective socialization theories, the authors test separate models for males and females and include neighborhood poverty and race composition, family social class position, and social control mechanisms such as family structure, parental involvement, and prosocial activities as predictors. The sample comprises 558 African American high school students followed over a 3-year period. For young women, the significant predictors are age, mother's education, time with mother, and involvement in church activities. For young men, the significant factors are school achievement, an interaction between living in an two-parent family and time with father, participation in family decision making, and neighborhood poverty level. Thus, males and females are differently affected by social control processes and neighborhood poverty plays a significant role in young African American men's sexual behaviors

Developmental psychology · Population · Poverty · Prosocial behavior · Social class · Socialization · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies