Externalizing psychopathology has been found to have small to moderate associations with neighborhood and family sociodemographic characteristics. However, prior studies may have used suboptimal operationalizations of neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics and externalizing psychopathology, potentially misestimating relations between these constructs. To address these limitations, in the current study we test different measurement models of these constructs and assess the structural relations between them. Using a population-representative sample of 2,195 twins and siblings from the Georgia Twin Study and data from the National Neighborhood Data Archive and 2000 U.S. Census, we assessed the fit of competing measurement models for family sociodemographic, neighborhood sociodemographic, and neighborhood environment characteristics. In structural models, we regressed a general externalizing dimension on different operationalizations of these variables separately and then simultaneously in a final model. Latent variable operationalizations of family sociodemographic, neighborhood sociodemographic, and neighborhood environment characteristics explained no more variance in broad externalizing psychopathology than other operationalizations. In an omnibus model, family sociodemographic characteristics showed a small association with externalizing psychopathology, while neighborhood sociodemographic and environmental characteristics did not. Family sociodemographic characteristics showed small associations with neighborhood sociodemographic and environmental characteristics, and neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics were moderately associated with neighborhood environment. These findings suggest that family sociodemographic characteristics are more associated with the development of broad externalizing psychopathology in youth than neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics and neighborhood environment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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评估邻里和家庭社会人口特征的结构模型及其与外化精神病理学的关系。


人们发现外化精神病理学与邻里和家庭的社会人口特征有小到中度的关联。然而，先前的研究可能使用了邻里社会人口特征的次优操作化和外化精神病理学，可能错误估计了这些结构之间的关系。为了解决这些局限性，在当前的研究中，我们测试了这些构造的不同测量模型并评估它们之间的结构关系。使用来自佐治亚双胞胎研究的 2,195 名双胞胎和兄弟姐妹的人口代表性样本以及来自国家社区数据档案和 2000 年美国人口普查的数据，我们评估了家庭社会人口学、社区社会人口学和社区环境特征的竞争测量模型的拟合度。在结构模型中，我们分别对这些变量的不同操作化回归一般外化维度，然后在最终模型中同时回归。家庭社会人口统计学、邻里社会人口统计学和邻里环境特征的潜在变量操作化并没有比其他操作化更多地解释广泛的外化精神病理学的差异。在综合模型中，家庭社会人口特征与外化精神病理学之间存在很小的关联，而邻里社会人口特征和环境特征却没有。家庭社会人口学特征与邻里社会人口学和环境特征的关联较小，邻里社会人口学特征与邻里环境中度相关。 这些发现表明，家庭社会人口特征与青少年广泛的外化精神病理学的发展比邻里社会人口特征和邻里环境更相关。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。