The social ecological model illustrates the complex relationships between a person and their environment. Reviews of the literature highlight a need to increase our understanding of how social processes affect youth across multiple environmental contexts. We use data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study to test social connections and observant adults in three contexts: neighborhood, school and family; as predictors of wellbeing, and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a sample of youth. Our findings suggests that social connections in the neighborhood, school, and family are associated with positive youth outcomes. Observant adults in the school and family are associated with greater wellbeing and fewer externalizing symptoms whereas observant adults in the neighborhood was not associated with youth outcomes. These findings highlight the importance of developing spaces where youth feel included, and the positive impact that observant adults in proximal contexts can have on youth. Understanding how social processes operate across contexts can help practitioners create synergy across the most salient contexts that affect youth.

社会生态模型说明了人与其环境之间的复杂关系。对文献的回顾强调，需要增加我们对社会过程如何在多种环境背景下影响青年的理解。我们使用来自家庭和儿童福祉的未来研究的数据，在三个背景下测试社会关系和观察力强的成年人：邻里、学校和家庭;作为幸福感的预测因子，以及在青年样本中内化和外化行为。我们的研究结果表明，邻里、学校和家庭中的社会联系与积极的青年结果相关。学校和家庭中善于观察的成年人与更高的幸福感和更少的外化症状有关，而附近善于观察的成年人与青年结果无关。这些发现强调了开发让青少年感到被包容的空间的重要性，以及在近端环境中观察细致的成年人可以对青少年产生的积极影响。了解社会过程如何在不同环境中运作，可以帮助从业者在影响青年的最突出环境中创造协同作用。