Neighborhood

Description

This 7-item scale asked parents and children to rate the safety and social climate of the neighborhood in which they live. For each reporter, a four-item mean score was used to capture perceptions of neighborhood danger.

Reference(s)

Griffin, K.W., Scheier, L.M., Botvin, G.J., Diaz, T., & Miller, N. (1999). Interpersonal aggression in urban minority youth: Mediators of perceived neighborhood, peer, and parental influences. J. Community Psychol. 27, 281-298.
O’Neil, R., Parke, R.D., McDowell, D.J. (2001). Objective and subjective features of children’s neighborhoods: Relations to parental regulatory strategies and children’s social competence. J. App. Dev. Psy. 22, 135-155.

Publication(s)

Chang, L., Lu, H. J., Lansford, J. E., Skinner, A. T., Bornstein, M. H., Steinberg, L., Dodge, K.A., Chen, B.B., Tian, Q., Bacchini, D., Deater-Deckard, K., Pastorelli, C., Alampay, L.P., Sorbring, E., Al-Hassan, S.M., Oburu, P., Malone, P.S., Di Giunta, L., Uribe Tirado, L., & Tapanya, S. (2019). Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries. Developmental Psychology, 55, 890-903.

Chang, L., Lu, H., Lansford, J. E., Bornstein, M. H., Steinberg, L., Chen, B., Skinner, A. T., Dodge, K. A., Deater-Deckard, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Alampay, L. P., Tapanya, S., Sorbring, E., Oburu, P., Al-Hassan, S., Di Giunta, L., Malone, P. S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., & Yotanyamaneewong, S. (2019). External environment and internal state in relation to life-history behavioural profiles of adolescents in nine countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1917), 20192097.

Deater-Deckard, K., Godwin, J., Lansford, J. E., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Yotanyamaneewong, S., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., & Tapanya, S. (2019). Chaos, danger, and maternal parenting in families: Links with adolescent adjustment in low- and middle-income countries. Developmental Science, 22(5), e12855.

Skinner, A. T., Bacchini, D., Lansford, J. E., Godwin, J., Sorbring, E., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Zelli, A., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bombi, A. S., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Miranda, M., Oburu, P., & Pastorelli, C. (2014). Neighborhood danger, parental monitoring, harsh parenting, and child aggression in nine countries. Societies, 4, 45-67.

Wave(s) Used

Parent: 3, 5
Youth: 3, 5

Measure PDF

Parent Neighborhood Measure PDF

Youth Neighborhood Measure PDF