We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Role of Parent and Peer Relationships and Individual Characteristics in Middle School Children's Behavioral Outcomes in the Face of Community Violence.
- Authors
Salzinger, Suzanne; Feldman, Richard S.; Rosario, Margaret; Ng‐Mak, Daisy S.
- Abstract
This study examines processes linking inner-city community violence exposure to subsequent internalizing and externalizing problems. Hypothesized risk and protective factors from 3 ecological domains-children's parent and peer relationships and individual characteristics-were examined for mediating, moderating, or independent roles in predicting problem behavior among 667 children over 3 years of middle school. Mediation was not found. However, parent and peer variables moderated the association between exposure and internalizing problems. Under high exposure, normally protective factors (e.g., attachment to parents) were less effective in mitigating exposure's effects than under low exposure; attachment to friends was more effective. Individual competence was independently associated with decreased internalizing problems. Variables from all domains, and exposure, were independently associated with externalizing problems. Protective factors (e.g., parent attachment) predicted decreased problems; risk factors (e.g., friends' delinquency) predicted increased problems. Results indicate community violence reduction as essential in averting inner-city adolescents' poor behavioral outcomes.
- Subjects
CHILDREN &; violence; PARENT-child relationships; PEERS; YOUTH violence; INNER city crime; MIDDLE schools
- Publication
Journal of Research on Adolescence (Wiley-Blackwell), 2011, Vol 21, Issue 2, p395
- ISSN
1050-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00677.x