Social Connections, Trajectories of Hopelessness, and Serious Violence in Impoverished Urban Youth

Autor/inn/en	Stoddard, Sarah A.; Henly, Susan J.; Sieving, Renee E.; Bolland, John
Titel	Social Connections, Trajectories of Hopelessness, and Serious Violence in Impoverished Urban Youth
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40 (2011) 3, S.278-295 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-010-9580-z
Schlagwörter	Neighborhoods; Violence; Females; Early Adolescents; Probability; Gender Differences; Urban Youth; Poverty; At Risk Persons; Social Influences; Psychological Patterns; African Americans; Surveys; Late Adolescents; Parent Child Relationship; Mothers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Gewalt; Weibliches Geschlecht; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Geschlechterkonflikt; Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt; Jugend; Armut; Risikogruppe; Sozialer Einfluss; Afroamerikaner; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Halbstarker; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mother; Mutter
Abstract	Youth living in impoverished urban neighborhoods are at risk for becoming hopeless about their future and engaging in violent behaviors. The current study seeks to examine the longitudinal relationship between social connections, hopelessness trajectories, and subsequent violent behavior across adolescence. Our sample included 723 (49% female) African American youth living in impoverished urban neighborhoods who participated in the Mobile Youth Survey from 1998 through 2006. Using general growth mixture modeling, we found two hopelessness trajectory classes for both boys and girls during middle adolescence: a consistently "low hopelessness class" and an "increasingly hopeless class" with quadratic change. In all classes, youth who reported stronger early adolescent connections to their mothers were less hopeless at age 13. The probability of later adolescent violence with a weapon was higher for boys and was associated with the "increasingly hopeless class" for both boys and girls. Implications for new avenues of research and design of hope-based prevention interventions will be discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10