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Social Control of Children—Chicago Neighborhood Study

Children Social skills

Social Control of Children—Chicago Neighborhood Study
Sampson‚ Morenoff & Earls‚ 19992
How likely is it that your neighbors can be counted on to “do something” if …
1. Children were skipping school and hanging out on a street corner?
2. Children were spray-painting graffiti on a local building?
3. Children were showing disrespect to an adult?
  • social cohesion
 
This instrument can be found on page 357 of Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes‚ Behaviors‚ and Influences Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools‚ available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/YV_Compendium.pdf
Point values are assigned as follows:
Very likely = 5
Likely = 4
Neither likely nor unlikely = 3
Unlikely = 2
Very unlikely = 1
Point values are summed and then divided by the total number of items. Higher scores indicate higher levels of child-centered social control.
 

Sampson RJ‚ Morenoff JD‚ Earls F. Beyond social capital: spatial dynamics of collective efficacy for children. American Sociological Review 1999;64:633-660.

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mohammad looti (2026). Social Control of Children—Chicago Neighborhood Study. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. Retrieved from https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/social-control-of-children-chicago-neighborhood-study/

mohammad looti. "Social Control of Children—Chicago Neighborhood Study." PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, 26 Apr. 2026, https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/social-control-of-children-chicago-neighborhood-study/.

mohammad looti. "Social Control of Children—Chicago Neighborhood Study." PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, 2026. https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/social-control-of-children-chicago-neighborhood-study/.

mohammad looti (2026) 'Social Control of Children—Chicago Neighborhood Study', PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. Available at: https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/social-control-of-children-chicago-neighborhood-study/.

[1] mohammad looti, "Social Control of Children—Chicago Neighborhood Study," PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, vol. X, no. Y, ص Z-Z, April, 2026.

mohammad looti. Social Control of Children—Chicago Neighborhood Study. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. 2026;vol(issue):pages.

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