The Influence of Neighborhood Disadvantage, Collective Socialization, and Parenting on African American Children's Affiliation with Deviant Peers

• Published in: Child development Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 1231 - 1246
• Main Authors: Brody, Gene H., Conger, Rand, Gibbons, Frederick X., Ge, Xiaojia, McBride Murry, Velma, Gerrard, Meg, Simons, Ronald L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, USA and Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishers Inc 01.07.2001; Blackwell Publishers; Blackwell; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Adult Child Relationship; African Americans; African Americans - psychology; Antisocial Personality Disorder - diagnosis; Antisocial Personality Disorder - psychology; Biological and medical sciences; Black American people; Black people; Black Youth; Caregivers; Child; Child development; Child discipline; Child molestation; Child psychology; Children; Children & youth; Communities; Community Characteristics; Delinquency; Developmental psychology; Economically Disadvantaged; Family, School, and Community; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Georgia; Humans; Iowa; Juvenile Delinquency - psychology; Low income groups; Male; Neighborhoods; Neighbourhoods; Parent Child Relationship; Parent-child relations; Parenting; Parenting - psychology; Parenting Styles; Peer Group; Peer groups; Peer Relationship; Peer relationships; Peers; Preadolescents; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychosocial Deprivation; Risk Factors; School age children; Social disadvantage; Social Environment; Social problems; Socialization; U.S.A; Iowa; Georgia; Human; Social environment; Parental behavior; Peer relation; Negroid; Ethnic group; Preadolescent; Parent child relation; Deviance; Social interaction; Neighbourhood; Black American; Socialization
• ISSN: 0009-3920; 1467-8624
• DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00344

This study focused on hypotheses about the contributions of neighborhood disadvantage, collective socialization, and parenting to African American children's affiliation with deviant peers. A total of 867 families living in Georgia and Iowa, each with a 10- to 12-year-old child, participated. Unique contributions to deviant peer affiliation were examined using a hierarchical linear model. Community disadvantage derived from census data had a significant positive effect on deviant peer affiliations. Nurturant/involved parenting and collective socialization processes were inversely associated, and harsh/inconsistent parenting was positively associated, with deviant peer affiliations. The effects of nurturant/involved parenting and collective socialization were most pronounced for children residing in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods.