Place matters: challenges and opportunities in four rural
                        Americas

Hamilton, Lawrence C.; Hamilton, Leslie; Duncan, Cynthia M.; Colocousis, Chris R.

doi:10.34051/p/2020.41

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“…Dunlap and McCright (2008) observed that the proportion believing that global warming is real increases with education among Democrats, and decreases with education among Republicans (also noted in Pew 2007). Hamilton (2008) detected interaction effects involving education and political orientation on four GSS items about global warming. Similar effects have been replicated in analyses of climate-change items on the 2007 CERA surveys (Hamilton and Keim 2009) and on 2008 regional surveys in Michigan and New Hampshire (Hamilton forthcoming).…”

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“…The disparity reflects women's higher assessments of personal and family dangers, and men's (especially, white males') higher confidence in their own knowledge (Davidson and Freudenberg 1996;Finucane et al 2000). Analysis of General Social Survey (GSS) data found that women expressed more sympathy for distant human or animal victims, as well (Hamilton 2008). Kahan et al (2005:3) account for the "white male effect" through a cultural theory of risk, whereby "individuals selectively credit and dismiss asserted dangers in a manner supportive of their preferred form of social organization.…”

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“…Environmental topics gained 1970s counterculture significance, grew more prominent through several waves of media attention (to such matters as toxic wastes, oil supplies, and global warming), and became integrated with modern school curricula. Possibly the long time lines of some environmental problems, such as sea-level rise from global warming, make their impact seem more personally threatening to the young (Hamilton 2008).…”

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“…The first stage involved telephone interviews with 7,842 people living in 19 rural counties of nine U.S. states. Following an examination of socioeconomic data on more than 3,000 U.S. counties, these 19 had been chosen to represent four broad types of rural places, characterized as amenity/ growth, amenity/decline, declining, and chronic poverty (Hamilton et al 2008). We selected for geographical and socioeconomic diversity as well.…”

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“…Median home values and the proportion of college graduates correlated .97 and .82, respectively, with 2000 census figures. Respondents' political preferences correlated .86 with 2004 county election results (Hamilton et al 2008), and their perceptions of local climate change varied with regional temperature trends (Hamilton and Keim 2009). We calculated probability weights to offset design bias arising from household size and make minor adjustments toward census age/sex/race distributions within each region, following methods described in Lee and Forthofer (2006).…”

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Place Effects on Environmental Views

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How people respond to questions involving the environment depends partly on individual characteristics. Characteristics such as age, gender, education, and ideology constitute the well‐studied “social bases of environmental concern,” which have been explained in terms of cohort effects or of cognitive and cultural factors related to social position. It seems likely that people's environmental views depend not only on personal characteristics but also on their social and physical environments. This hypothesis has been more difficult to test, however. Using data from surveys in 19 rural U.S. counties, we apply mixed‐effects modeling to investigate simple place effects with respect to locally focused environmental views. We find evidence for two kinds of place effects. Net of individual characteristics, specific place characteristics have the expected effect on related environmental views. Local changes are related to attitudes about regulation and growth. For example, respondents more often perceive rapid development as a problem, and favor environmental rules that restrict development, in rural counties with growing populations. Moreover, they favor conserving resources for the future rather than using them now to create jobs in counties that have low unemployment. After we controlled for county growth, unemployment and jobs in resource‐based industries, and individual social‐position and ideological factors, there remains significant place‐to‐place variation in mean levels of environmental concern. Even with both kinds of place effects in the models, the individual‐level predictors of environmental concern follow patterns expected from previous research. Concern increases with education among Democrats, whereas among Republicans, the relationship is attenuated or reversed. The interaction marks reframing of environmental questions as political wedge issues, through nominally scientific counterarguments aimed at educated, ideologically receptive audiences.

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Contextual Factors Associated With County-Level Suicide Rates in the United States, 1999 to 2016

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Key PointsQuestionWhat are the spatial and temporal trends in suicide rates, how are contextual-level factors associated with suicide, and do these associations vary across the rural-urban continuum?FindingsThis cross-sectional study found that suicide rates in the United States increased from 1999 to 2016, with the greatest increase in rural counties. Deprivation had a disproportionately negative association with suicide rates in rural counties, the presence of gun shops and a higher percentage of uninsured individuals were associated with higher suicide rates, and high social capital was associated with lower suicide rates.MeaningUnderstanding geographical differences in suicide rates and community-level risk and protective factors can inform development and implementation of targeted suicide prevention strategies.

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Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: An Evaluation of Effectiveness in a Rural Community

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Little research has been done to evaluate the effectiveness of early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) in rural, applied settings. In this mixed-methods study, we evaluated an approach to ECMHC used in rural Southwest Kansas with individualized services for childcare providers. Twenty-nine home-based and center-based childcare providers completed measures on provider growth, perceptions of child outcomes, and satisfaction with sessions. In total, 162 data points were collected and analyzed using multilevel growth models. In addition, 16 providers participated in qualitative interviews. Both home-based and center-based providers reported very high satisfaction with consultation sessions which increased with time, although home-based providers showed significantly higher satisfaction than did center-based providers. Provider growth, encompassing personal well-being, scheduling and transitions, connections with parents, and positive discipline strategies increased significantly over time. Child outcomes, encompassing prosocial behavior, resilience, and overall well-being also improved significantly in providers' perception. ECMHC as conducted in Southwest Kansas appears to have a positive effect on childcare providers and the children in their care.

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Place matters: challenges and opportunities in four rural Americas

Abstract: Foundations and the neil and Louise tillotson Fund of the new Hampshire Charitable Foundation.

Cited by 69 publications

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Place Effects on Environmental Views

Place Effects on Environmental Views

Contextual Factors Associated With County-Level Suicide Rates in the United States, 1999 to 2016

Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: An Evaluation of Effectiveness in a Rural Community

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