Neighbourhood Poverty, Work Commitment and Unemployment in Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study into the Moderating Effect of Personality

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Yu, Rongqin; Branje, Susan; Meeus, Wim; Hooimeijer, Pieter

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167830

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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

Nieuwenhuis

Ham

et al. 2017

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

Nieuwenhuis

Ham

et al. 2017

J Youth Adolescence

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“…To measure contextual effects, a cross-sectional approach is often not sufficient. The duration (e.g., Nieuwenhuis et al, 2016 ) and the timing of exposure to a poor context matter (e.g., Alvarado, 2016 ). First, longer exposure to poverty is likely to have a stronger impact on outcomes than short-term exposure.…”

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The Role of Exposure to Neighborhood and School Poverty in Understanding Educational Attainment

Nieuwenhuis

Kleinepier²,

Ham

2021

J Youth Adolescence

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Because the demographic composition of neighborhoods and schools overlaps, their effects on educational attainment are not independent of each other. Throughout the early teenage years, the timing and duration of exposure to neighborhood and school contexts can vary, advocating for a longitudinal approach when studying schooling outcomes. This study uses Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children data (N = 4502; 49% female) to examine how exposure to poverty between ages 10–16 predicts educational attainment. The results indicate that enduring exposure to neighborhood poverty relates to educational attainment, while timing does not. For school poverty, longer exposure is related to lower attainment, but earlier exposure has a stronger impact than later exposure. Adolescents who were exposed to poverty in both contexts for the full observation period had the lowest educational attainment. The findings highlight the importance of understanding when and how long adolescents are exposed to contextual poverty.

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“…In this context, personality traits are usually interpreted as non-cognitive skills that are rewarded on the labor market (Bowles, Gintis, and Osborne 2001). However, in the context of NEET, the extent to which people are resilient enough to overcome setbacks and are able to adapt to new situations might be more elementary for succeeding in the successful school-to-work transition (Ng-Knight and Schoon 2017; Nieuwenhuis et al 2016;Pinquart, Juang, and Silbereisen 2003).…”

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From school to where? How social class, skills, aspirations, and resilience explain unsuccessful school-to-work transitions

Dicks¹,

Levels²,

Velden³

2020

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Neighbourhood Poverty, Work Commitment and Unemployment in Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study into the Moderating Effect of Personality

Cited by 15 publications

References 43 publications

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

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

The Role of Exposure to Neighborhood and School Poverty in Understanding Educational Attainment

From school to where? How social class, skills, aspirations, and resilience explain unsuccessful school-to-work transitions

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