Ying-Chih Chuang

Neighborhood Context, Parenting, and Adolescent Smoking and Drinking

Theories, Methods, and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contains three studies. The first study
addresses whether neighborhood influences on
adolescent substance use are mediated through
parental and peer characteristics. The second study
compares differences in neighborhood mechanisms on
adolescent substance use between census tracts and
block groups. The third study examines whether
parenting effects on adolescent substance use vary by
neighborhood type. The sample includes 924
adolescents 12 to 14 years of age whose addresses
were matched with 1990 census tracts and census block
groups. The findings are as follows: (1) Parenting
characteristics mediate the relationship between
neighborhoods and adolescent substance use; (2) The
pattern of relationships in the tract model of
alcohol use is similar to that in the block-group
model of alcohol use. The block-group model of
cigarette use shows a different pattern of
relationships than the tract model of cigarette use;
(3) Six neighborhood types were identified through
cluster analysis. The impact of parenting on
adolescent cigarette and alcohol use differs by
neighborhood type.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 92
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• Gewicht: 130g
• ISBN-13: 9783639042696
• ISBN-10: 3639042697
• Artikelnr.: 26100430

Autorenporträt

Ying-Chih Chuang is associate professor in the Graduate Institute
of Public Health at Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. She is
primarily interested in contextual influences on health,
theoretical and methodological issues concerning minority health,
and adolescent health risk behaviors.