Measuring neighborhood context for young children in an urban area |
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Authors: | Claudia J Coulton Jill E Korbin Marilyn Su |
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Institution: | (1) Case Western Reserve University, USA |
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Abstract: | Awareness of worsening conditions in urban areas has led to a growing interest in how neighborhood context affects children.
Although the ecological perspective within child development has acknowledged the relevance of community factors, methods
of measuring the neighborhood context for children have been quite limited. An approach to measuring neighborhood environments
was tested using the average perceptions of caregivers of young children sampled from high- and low-risk block groups. Individual-
and aggregate-level reliabilities and discriminant validity were acceptable for dimensions of neighborhood quality and change,
participation in block organizations, disorder and incivilities, service usage and quality, and retaliation against adults.
However, for measures of neighborhood interaction and the tendency of adults to intervene with children, there was virtually
no agreement among respondents within block groups, resulting in poor aggregate reliability. A model of variability may be
a more promising way of characterizing neighborhoods along these dimensions.
This research was supported primarily by a grant from The Foundation for Child Development, as well as support from the Cleveland
Foundation. |
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Keywords: | neighborhood community context child maltreatment |
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