Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment of adolescents, buffered by personality and educational commitment

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Hooimeijer, Pieter; Meeus, Wim

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.11.011

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“…It was shown that smaller areas more likely represent the individually perceived neighbourhood, and are more suitable to analyse socialisation processes than larger units of analysis (Oberwittler and Wikström, 2009). In a different paper, we were also unable to identify effects for the larger areas (Nieuwenhuis et al, 2015a). When respondents change postcode between waves (which happened at least once for 28% of the sample), this is reflected in different values for the neighbourhood variable in different waves.…”

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Neighbourhood immigrant concentration effects on migrant and native youth’s educational commitments, an enquiry into personality differences

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In the literature examining neighbourhood effects on educational outcomes, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often assumed. We attempt to fill this gap by looking at how the internalisation of educational norms (commitments) is influenced by neighbourhoods’ immigrant concentration. We investigate this process for both migrant and native youth, as both groups might be influenced differently by immigrant concentrations. To test our hypothesis we used longitudinal panel data with five waves (N = 4255), combined with between-within models which control for a large portion of potential selection bias. These models have an advantage over naïve OLS models in that they predict the effect of change in neighbourhood characteristics on change in educational commitment, and therefore offer a more dynamic approach to modelling neighbourhood effects. Our results show that living in neighbourhoods with higher proportions of immigrants increases the educational commitments of migrant youth compared to living in neighbourhoods with lower proportions. Besides, we find that adolescents with a resilient personality experience less influence of the neighbourhood context on educational commitments than do adolescents with non-resilient personalities.

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“…The conclusion that moving to a wealthier neighborhood is related to increased psychosocial problem behavior has various implications for both research and policy. First, for researchers interested in neighborhood effects and neighborhood mix it is crucial not to overgeneralize the influence of the neighborhood, but to relate individuals to their neighborhood, for example by using person-context interaction designs (see also Nieuwenhuis 2016 ; Nieuwenhuis et al 2015 , 2016b ; Tuvblad et al 2006 ; van Ham and Manley 2012 ; Yu et al 2016 ). This way, research can tease out the differential effects of neighborhood characteristics for different people.…”

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Being Poorer Than the Rest of the Neighborhood: Relative Deprivation and Problem Behavior of Youth

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J Youth Adolescence

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According to the neighborhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighborhood wealth and youth’s problem behavior. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighborhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioral problems in more affluent neighborhoods. Much of this literature does not take into account relative wealth. Our central question was whether the economic position of adolescents’ families, relative to the neighborhood in which they lived, was related to adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. We used longitudinal data for youth between 12–16 and 16–20 years of age, combined with population register data (N = 926; 55% females). We employ between-within models to account for time-invariant confounders, including parental background characteristics. Our findings show that, for adolescents, moving to a more affluent neighborhood was related to increased levels of depression, social phobia, aggression, and conflict with fathers and mothers. This could be indirect evidence for the relative deprivation mechanism, but we could not confirm this, and we did not find any gender differences. The results do suggest that future research should further investigate the role of individuals’ relative position in their neighborhood in order not to overgeneralize neighborhood effects and to find out for whom neighborhoods matter.

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“…For example, adolescents with 'resilient personalities' can buffer negative neighbourhood effects through building capacity to cope with neighbourhood stressors (Nieuwenhuis et al 2015). The simplicity of our approach for measuring neighbourhood socioeconomic context requires improving to develop our analytical approach in future research , and it may be that our approach requires combining with methods such as Structural Equation Modelling to be able to tackle such complexities of neighbourhood socioeconomic context.…”

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“…The growth of multi-level modelling helped researchers attempt to separate out these two factors, consistently finding support for contextual explanations suggesting that the social environment mattered (Riva et al 2007;Mitchell 2001). Multiple processes and mechanisms have been proposed to explain the role of neighbourhood socioeconomic context for health including: living in stressful environments (Kaplan et al 2013;Nieuwenhuis et al 2015), a lack of social capital and/or cohesion (Pearce & Davey Smith 2003;Uphoff et al 2013), and greater accessibility to unhealthy foods (Smith et al 2016).…”

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Using Internal Migration to Estimate the Causal Effect of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context on Health: A Longitudinal Analysis, England, 1995–2008

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Arcaya

Subramanian

2017

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment of adolescents, buffered by personality and educational commitment

Cited by 37 publications

References 50 publications

Neighbourhood immigrant concentration effects on migrant and native youth’s educational commitments, an enquiry into personality differences

Neighbourhood immigrant concentration effects on migrant and native youth’s educational commitments, an enquiry into personality differences

Being Poorer Than the Rest of the Neighborhood: Relative Deprivation and Problem Behavior of Youth

Using Internal Migration to Estimate the Causal Effect of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context on Health: A Longitudinal Analysis, England, 1995–2008

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