Neighbourhood effects on educational attainment of adolescents,buffered by personality and educational commitment |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Urban and Regional research centre Utrecht (URU), Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands;2. OTB – Research for the Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5030, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands;3. Research Centre on Adolescent Development, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands;4. Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands;1. Department of Youth and Family, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands;2. Department OTB – Research for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;3. Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands;4. Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands;5. Department of Clinical Developmental Psychology and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;1. University of Western Ontario, Canada;2. Queens College, City University of New York, United States;3. Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, United States;1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, PO Box 6326, Morgantown, WV 26506, United States;2. Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Tukkiewerf Building, Pretoria 0002, South Africa;3. Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Sloan College, Rm. 321, 911 Pickens St., Columbia, SC 29208, United States;1. Office of Government, Policy & Strategy, Australian Catholic University, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy Victoria 3065, Australia;2. School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Research has repeatedly shown that neighbourhood disadvantage negatively influences individual educational outcomes. However, the great variation in outcomes indicates substantial unobserved heterogeneity. Looking at the rates of obtaining a basic educational qualification, the hypothesis is that individual traits of adolescents can buffer neighbourhood effects. First, adolescents with a more resilient personality may be better able to cope with neighbourhood adversity. And second, educational commitments might buffer adolescents from negative neighbourhood influences. These hypotheses are tested employing survival analysis, using six wave panel data, containing information on ten years of adolescents’ lives. The results show that resilients experience no negative influence of neighbourhood disadvantage, while both undercontrollers and overcontrollers do. And, the stronger adolescents’ educational commitments, the less they experience the negative effect of neighbourhood adversity. In sum, neighbourhood effects are found, but not for everybody. |
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| Keywords: | Neighbourhood effects Personality types Educational commitment Adolescents Longitudinal |
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