Despite the rich history of empirical research on neighborhood collective efficacy, studies considering the factors that contribute to collective efficacy formation at the individual level have yet to account for family members’ perceptions of collective efficacy. This study examines whether individuals form perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy through knowledge of their geographic locales or via the intra-familial transmission of perceptions of collective efficacy. This study appends information from the following three distinct samples of adults in the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN): 349 young adult respondents, their primary caregivers (n = 349), and an independent sample of over 8000 adults distributed across 146 neighborhoods. Interviews with respondents (average age 20 years; 53.87% female) and their primary caregivers were conducted from 2000 to 2002. Regression analysis adjusting for clustering and mediation macros was utilized to examine the research questions. At baseline, neighborhood collective efficacy was associated with respondents’ perceptions of collective efficacy. The impact of neighborhood collective efficacy, however, was mediated completely by parents’ perceptions of collective efficacy. Parents’ perceptions of collective efficacy, family support, and concentrated disadvantage were the strongest predictors of respondents’ perceptions of collective efficacy. Findings suggest that neighborhood collective efficacy can be altered through family processes as well as by changing the structural characteristics of broader social settings. Increasing collective efficacy—and social capital more generally—may be best facilitated intergenerationally from parents to their children.

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通过家族视角的邻居：研究集体效能的代际传递

尽管有关邻里集体效能的实证研究历史悠久，但考虑到在个体层面上有助于集体效能形成的因素的研究仍无法说明家庭成员对集体效能的看法。这项研究检查了个人是否通过了解自己的地理位置或通过家族内对集体效能感的传递来形成对邻居集体效能感的认识。这项研究从芝加哥邻里人类发展计划（PHDCN）的以下三个不同的成年人样本中获取信息：349位年轻的成年人受访者，他们的主要照顾者（n = 349），以及一个独立的样本，分布在146个地区中的8000多名成年人社区。受访者访谈（平均年龄20岁； 53。从2000年到2002年，进行了87％的女性）及其主要护理人员的研究。通过对聚类和中介宏进行调整的回归分析来研究研究问题。在基线时，邻居的集体效能与受访者对集体效能的看法有关。但是，邻居集体效能的影响完全由父母对集体效能的理解所介导。父母对集体效能，家庭支持和弱势群体的观念是受访者对集体效能观念的最强预测指标。研究结果表明，邻里集体效能可以通过家庭过程以及通过改变更广泛的社会环境的结构特征来改变。