Economic disadvantage profoundly impacts children and families. Yet, limited work examines the multileveled processes by which low-income parents’ neighborhood perceptions intersect with their children’s opportunities. Using the Making Connections (MC) longitudinal dataset, a multi-city random-sampled strengths-based study of predominately low-income households, we examine how parents’ perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy (social cohesion and informal social control) shape their school-age children and adolescents’ (M age = 10.8, range = 7-17 years; 46.6% = female) participation in extracurricular activities and perceived school satisfaction. The study sample is racially diverse (Black, Latino/a, White, API, and Multiracial) and low-income. Findings indicated that higher collective efficacy predicted increased school satisfaction. However, collective efficacy only positively predicted participation in extracurricular activities for higher income households. This study offers insight into how parents’ perceptions of their neighborhoods, and their degree of economic advantage, may jointly shape their children’s well-being.

经济劣势深刻影响儿童和家庭。然而，有限的工作研究了低收入父母的邻里观念与其孩子的机会相交的多层次过程。使用建立联系(MC) 纵向数据集，这是一项针对主要是低收入家庭的基于多城市随机抽样优势的研究，我们研究了父母对邻里集体效能（社会凝聚力和非正式社会控制）的看法如何塑造他们的学校——年龄儿童和青少年（M年龄 = 10.8，范围 = 7-17 岁；46.6% = 女性）参加课外活动和感知学校满意度。研究样本具有种族多样性（黑人、拉丁裔/a、白人、API 和多种族）和低收入人群。结果表明，集体效能越高，学校满意度越高。然而，集体效能仅积极预测高收入家庭的课外活动参与情况。这项研究让我们深入了解父母对社区的看法以及他们的经济优势程度如何共同影响孩子的幸福感。