Title

Cumulative And Relative Disadvantage As Long-Term Determinants Of Negative Self-Feelings

Abstract

We analyze the long-term effects of neighborhood poverty and crime on negative self-feelings of young adults. Cumulative and relative disadvantage explanations are tested with the interactive effect of (1) neighborhood and individual-level economic disadvantage and (2) neighborhood crime and economic disadvantage. Results from a longitudinal study following adolescents to young adulthood show that the development of negative self-feelings (a combination of depression, anxiety, and self-derogation) is determined by relative, rather than cumulative disadvantage. The poor in affluent neighborhoods have the highest negative self-feelings, while the relatively wealthy in poor neighborhoods have the lowest negative self-feelings. Similarly, we find the highest increase in negative self-feelings is found in an affluent neighborhood with crime and not in a poor neighborhood with crime. © 2012 Alpha Kappa Delta.

Publication Date

2-1-2013

Publication Title

Sociological Inquiry

Volume

83

Issue

1

Number of Pages

130-153

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682X.2012.00426.x

Socpus ID

84872573942 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84872573942

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