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Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 3, 380-397 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1090198104272334

Relationships Among Youth Assets and Neighborhood and Community Resources

Michelle Crozier Kegler, DrPH, MPH

Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Roy F. Oman, PhD

Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City

Sara K. Vesely, PhD

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City

Kenneth R. McLeroy, PhD

School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M University, Bryant

Cheryl B. Aspy, PhD

Department of Family and Preventative Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City

Sharon Rodine, MEd

Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy, Oklahoma City

LaDonna Marshall

Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy, Oklahoma City

Recent research suggests that a youth development framework emphasizing youth assets may be a promising intervention strategy for preventing adolescent risk behaviors. Understanding how neighborhood and community resources relate to youth assets may aid in identifying environmental strategies to complement individually oriented asset-building interventions. In this study, 1,350 randomly selected inner-city youth and their parents (paired interviews) were interviewed in person. After controlling for demographic characteristics of youth and parents using multivariate logistic regression, parental perception of neighborhood safety was associated with the nonparental adult role model asset, peer role model asset, and for African American youth, the community involvement asset. City services and neighborhood services were associated with use of time (groups/sports) and use of time (religion), respectively. Psychological sense of community was associated with community involvement for Native American youth. Findings suggest that neighborhood and community-level influences should be considered when designing youth development interventions to reduce risk behaviors.

Key Words: youth development • youth assets • protective factors • adolescent health • neighborhood context


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