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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Youth Soc. 2011 Sep 21;45(3):404–427. doi: 10.1177/0044118X11421940

Table 2.

Measurement Model

Indicator Unstandardized
factor
loading
Robust
SE
Standardized
factor
loading
Robust
t
Parents’ perceived neighborhood disorganization
Physical disorder 1.00 .68
Social disorder 5.63 .41 .92 13.78
Structural problems 2.19 .16 .86 14.09
Crime/victimization 6.79 .50 .94 13.66
Adolescents’ perceived neighborhood disorganization
Physical disorder 1.00 .81
Social disorder 4.88 .20 .94 24.62
Structural problems 1.58 .07 .84 22.44
Crime/victimization 5.26 .21 .98 25.55
Neighborhood cohesion
People in this neighborhood can be trusted 1.0 .77
This is a close-knit neighborhood 1.06 .07 .90 16.39
People around here are willing to help their neighbors 1.02 .06 .80 17.41
Neighborhood control
Neighbors would intervene - Youth skipping school and hanging out on street corner 1.0 .71
Neighbors would intervene - Youth writing graffiti on public places/wall 1.04 .05 .79 20.68
Neighbors would intervene - Youth showing disrespect to an adult 1.17 .09 .94 13.00
Neighbors would intervene - Fight breaking out in front of their house .97 .09 .69 11.28

Note.

Unstandardized factor loading was fixed at 1.0. All factor loadings are statistically significant (p < .05).