| Role of Parent and Peer Relationships and Individual Characteristics in Middle School Children's Behavioral Outcomes in the Face of Community Violence. | |
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PMID: 21643493 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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This study examines processes linking inner-city community violence exposure to subsequent internalizing and externalizing problems. Hypothesized risk and protective factors from three 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 three 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. |
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Suzanne Salzinger; Margaret Rosario; Richard S Feldman; Daisy S Ng-Mak |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE |
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Title: Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence Volume: 21 ISSN: 1050-8392 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Jun |
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Created Date: 2011-6-6 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9109126 Medline TA: J Res Adolesc Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 395-407 Citation Subset: - |
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Drs. Salzinger and Feldman are with New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University; Dr. Rosario is with the City University of New York - City College and Graduate Center; Dr. Ng-Mak is with Merck Pharmaceuticals and formerly with Columbia University School of Public Health. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Suzanne Salzinger, NYSPI, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 56, New York, NY 10032. |
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R01 MH056198-03//NIMH NIH HHS; R01 MH056198-04//NIMH NIH HHS; R01 MH056198-04S1//NIMH NIH HHS |
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