Political Violence and Child Adjustment in Northern Ireland: Testing Pathways in a Social-Ecological Model Including Single- and Two-Parent Families

Autor/inn/en	Cummings, E. Mark; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Merrilees, Christine E.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cairns, Ed
Titel	Political Violence and Child Adjustment in Northern Ireland: Testing Pathways in a Social-Ecological Model Including Single- and Two-Parent Families
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 46 (2010) 4, S.827-841 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0019668
Schlagwörter	Psychological Needs; Prosocial Behavior; Children; Foreign Countries; Social Environment; Violence; One Parent Family; Family Structure; Working Class; Disadvantaged; Parent Child Relationship; Social Adjustment; Security (Psychology); United Kingdom (Belfast) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Ausland; Soziales Umfeld; Gewalt; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Arbeiterklasse; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Soziale Anpassung; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit
Abstract	Moving beyond simply documenting that political violence negatively impacts children, we tested a social-ecological hypothesis for relations between political violence and child outcomes. Participants were 700 mother-child (M = 12.1 years, SD = 1.8) dyads from 18 working-class, socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, including single- and two-parent families. Sectarian community violence was associated with elevated family conflict and children's reduced security about multiple aspects of their social environment (i.e., family, parent-child relations, and community), with links to child adjustment problems and reductions in prosocial behavior. By comparison, and consistent with expectations, links with negative family processes, child regulatory problems, and child outcomes were less consistent for nonsectarian community violence. Support was found for a social-ecological model for relations between political violence and child outcomes among both single- and two-parent families, with evidence that emotional security and adjustment problems were more negatively affected in single-parent families. The implications for understanding social ecologies of political violence and children's functioning are discussed. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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