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MULTILEVEL STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS FOR DEFINING THE
STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF NEIGHBORHOODS
by
Kristopher Ian Stevens
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Kristopher Ian Stevens
Object Description
| Title | Multilevel structural equation models for defining neighborhood dimensions |
| Author | Stevens, Kristopher Ian |
| Author email | kisteven@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-09-16 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-02-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Trickett, Penelope |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McArdle, John J. Schwartz, David |
| Abstract | Following from Raudenbush and Sampson (1999), the current study employed Systematic Social Observation methodology to examine a small sample of high-risk Los Angeles neighborhoods in order to determine: 1) whether this method can reliably and validly measure physical disorder and social disorder; 2) the levels of census-based geographical aggregation that physical disorder and social disorder are best measured; 3) the relationships between social disorder and physical disorder and family functioning; and 4) whether the relationships between social disorder and physical disorder and family functioning are different for families with or without a history of child maltreatment. To address these aims, all the streets within 12 census tracts (1596 face blocks) and 70 families residing within those census tracts were observed. Measurement properties and associations between the variables of interest were examined using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) techniques. Results of this study did not replicate those of Raudenbush and Sampson (1997). |
| Keyword | neighborhood; structural equation modeling; social disorder; physical disorder |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m264 |
| Rights | Stevens, Kristopher Ian |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Stevens-20070215 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Stevens-20070215.pdf |
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| Full text | MULTILEVEL STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS FOR DEFINING THE STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF NEIGHBORHOODS by Kristopher Ian Stevens A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Kristopher Ian Stevens |
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