Adolescent Health and Development in Context Abstract We propose an unprecedented data collection effort emphasizing the impact of spatial and social exposures on risk behavior, victimization, and mental/physical health for a large sample of youth (N=5,200) and their caregivers in Franklin County, Ohio. The proposed study has three overarching aims: (1) examine the influence of key structural and social process characteristics of multiple social contexts on youth developmental outcomes (risk behavior, victimization, and mental/physical health);(2) examine situational effects on youth developmental outcomes in real time;and (3) examine the extent to which youth's """"""""communities""""""""-i.e., the networks of actors and settings in which adolescents are embedded through routine exposure-influence their health and developmental outcomes. This project offers three significant advances over prior contextual studies of youth development. First, we will collect data on a comprehensive array of developmentally relevant settings including family/household, residential, school, social network, and other formal and informal """"""""activity space"""""""" contexts (e.g., churches, recreation centers, businesses, and """"""""hang out"""""""" locations). This multi-contextual emphasis will enable us to examine the influence of a wide range of contextual exposures on significant aspects of youth well-being. Second, we will use Ecological Momentary Assessment to collect real-time data on behavioral settings, including peer presence, adult supervision, the level of structure characterizing activities, and behavioral/health outcomes. These space-time situated network data will offer empirical linkages between the social network and spatial contexts of youth development enabling analyses of situational influences on setting outcomes. Third, we will collect geo-coded data on the spatial and organizational settings of youth activities to identify overlapping activity locations among sampled youth (e.g., subjects who spend time at the same school, church, park, etc.). This information will be used to construct actor-setting affiliation networks among youth and activity locations, capturing heretofore unmeasured """"""""community"""""""" structure. Characteristics of the communities in which adolescents are embedded may have important implications for well-being, above and beyond those contexts typically measured in prior research. Our analytic approach will combine spatial and multilevel spatial statistical models to explore key hypotheses. Findings from the study have the potential to illuminate critical pathways through which contextual factors influence adolescent well-being.

Public Health Relevance

The proposed research will contribute to a better understanding of how the contexts of adolescent development-including schools, residential areas, activity spaces, and social network ties- contribute to risk behavior, victimization and mental/physical health. Findings from the research may help guide interventions that aim to address urban adolescent health, both with respect to the types of contexts that should be targeted for intervention and the social characteristics of contexts that are most likely to be influential with respect to adolescent outcomes.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DA032371-02
Application #
8333365
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-PSE-B (50))
Program Officer
Deeds, Bethany
Project Start
2011-09-15
Project End
2016-07-31
Budget Start
2012-08-01
Budget End
2013-07-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$602,895
Indirect Cost
$203,350
Name
Ohio State University
Department
Social Sciences
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
832127323
City
Columbus
State
OH
Country
United States
Zip Code
43210
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Ford, Jodi L; Stowe, Raymond P (2017) Depressive symptoms are associated with salivary shedding of Epstein-Barr virus in female adolescents: The role of sex differences. Psychoneuroendocrinology 86:128-133
Browning, Christopher R; Calder, Catherine A; Krivo, Lauren J et al. (2017) Socioeconomic Segregation of Activity Spaces in Urban Neighborhoods: Does Shared Residence Mean Shared Routines? RSF 3:210-231
Browning, Christopher R; Calder, Catherine A; Ford, Jodi L et al. (2017) Understanding Racial Differences in Exposure to Violent Areas: Integrating Survey, Smartphone, and Administrative Data Resources. Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci 669:41-62
Browning, Christopher R; Calder, Catherine A; Boettner, Bethany et al. (2017) Ecological Networks and Urban Crime: The Structure of Shared Routine Activity Locations and Neighborhood-Level Informal Control Capacity. Criminology 55:754-778
Browning, Christopher R; Dirlam, Jonathan; Boettner, Bethany (2016) From Heterogeneity to Concentration: Latino Immigrant Neighborhoods and Collective Efficacy Perceptions in Los Angeles and Chicago. Soc Forces 95:779-807
Smith, Anna; Calder, Catherine A; Browning, Christopher R (2016) Empirical Reference Distributions for Networks of Different Size. Soc Networks 47:24-37
Ford, Jodi L; Boch, Samantha J; McCarthy, Donna O (2016) Feasibility of Hair Collection for Cortisol Measurement in Population Research on Adolescent Health. Nurs Res 65:249-55
Jackson, Aubrey L; Browning, Christopher R; Krivo, Lauren J et al. (2016) The Role of Immigrant Concentration Within and Beyond Residential Neighborhoods in Adolescent Alcohol Use. J Youth Adolesc 45:17-34
Kwan, Mei-Po; Xiao, Ningchuan; Ding, Guoxiang (2015) Assessing Activity Pattern Similarity with Multidimensional Sequence Alignment based on a Multiobjective Optimization Evolutionary Algorithm. Geogr Anal 46:297-320

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