Community Violence Exposure and Adolescent Delinquency: Examining a Spectrum of Promotive Factors

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Pan; Voisin, Dexter R.; Jacobson, Kristen C.
Titel	Community Violence Exposure and Adolescent Delinquency: Examining a Spectrum of Promotive Factors
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 48 (2016) 1, S.33-57 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X13475827
Schlagwörter	Violence; Community Characteristics; Delinquency; Futures (of Society); Family Relationship; Affective Behavior; Correlation; Attachment Behavior; Student School Relationship; Middle School Students; Student Attitudes; Risk; Student Diversity; Gender Differences; Poverty; Computer Software; Statistical Analysis; Antisocial Behavior; Multivariate Analysis; Regression (Statistics) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gewalt; Kriminalität; Future; Society; Zukunft; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Korrelation; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Schülerverhalten; Risiko; Geschlechterkonflikt; Armut; Statistische Analyse; Multivariate Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	This study examined whether promotive factors (future expectations, family warmth, school attachment, and neighborhood cohesion) moderated relationships between community violence exposure and youth delinquency. Analyses were conducted using N = 2,980 sixth to eighth graders (M[subscript age] = 12.48; 41.1% males) from a racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse sample. After controlling for demographic factors, delinquency was positively associated with community violence exposure and inversely associated with each of the promotive factors. When interaction effects between all promotive factors and community violence exposure were examined simultaneously, only future expectations moderated the relationship between community violence exposure and delinquency. Specifically, community violence exposure had a weaker association with delinquency for youth reporting high versus low levels of future expectations. Results indicate that while promotive factors from family, school, and neighborhood domains are related to lower rates of delinquency, only future expectations served as a protective factor that specifically buffered youth from the risk effects of community violence exposure. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01