Community Organizational Resources and Children's Well-Being

亚利桑那州约瑟夫·加拉斯凯维奇大学这项研究考察了影响儿童生活质量的因素。社区组织资源的可获得性是否会影响儿童的福祉？为什么某些社区比其他社区拥有更多的组织资源？在大衰退之后的过去十年里，发生了哪些变化？通过回答这些问题，我们希望了解为什么一些社区比其他社区更适合儿童居住。该项目将完成对大凤凰城地区1100户5至12岁孩子的家庭的电话调查，询问孩子们上周六做了什么？关于这个家庭呢？S在过去的六个月里使用了医疗服务提供者。这重复了该调查员在2003-04年间进行的一项调查。调查员还利用各种来源收集2013年为儿童提供活动的机构的位置数据，并将这些数据与2003年、2007年、2008年和2009年的可比地理编码机构进行匹配。这些数据将提供哪些社区和郊区在过去十年中增加/减少了组织资源存量的信息，并将2003-04年度和2013-14年度的调查结果进行比较，以确定这是否会导致家庭改变对社区资源的使用。广泛的影响这项工作具有更广泛的意义，因为儿童？S获得不同类型的组织资源对他们的教育、情感和社会发展非常重要。研究结果有可能帮助我们更好地了解组织资源在地理上分布的原因和方式，以及它们是否会对儿童的生活产生影响。此外，结果可能会产生洞察力，为政策提供依据，确保社区为年轻居民提供富有成效的组织选择。

SES-1259129Joseph Galaskiewicz University of ArizonaThe study examines conditions that contribute to children's quality of life. Does the availability of organizational resources in a community affect children's well being? Why do certain neighborhoods have more organizational resources than others? What changes have taken place over the last decade in the wake of the Great Recession? In answering these questions we hope to understand why some neighborhoods are better places for children to live than others. The project will complete telephone surveys with 1,100 households in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area with children between 5 and 12 and ask about what children did ?last Saturday? and about the family?s use of medical providers over the last six months. This replicates a survey the investigator conducted in 2003-04. Using a variety of sources the investigator also collects data on the locations of establishments which provide activities for children in 2013 and match these with comparable geo-coded establishments for 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2009. These data will provide information on which neighborhoods and suburbs increased/decreased their stock of organizational resources over the last decade, and, comparing the 2003-04 to 2013-14 survey results, if this resulted in families changing their utilization of neighborhood resources.Broader ImpactsThe work has broader significance, because children?s access to different types of organizational resources is important for their educational, emotional, and social development. Research findings have the potential to help us better understand why and how organizational resources are distributed geographically and if they make a difference in the lives of children. Also, results could generate insights to inform policies that would ensure that neighborhoods provide productive organizational options for their young residents.