Aggressive Behavior in Response to Violence Exposure: Is It Adaptive for Middle-School Children?

Autor/inn/en	Salzinger, Suzanne; Rosario, Margaret; Feldman, Richard S.; Ng-Mak, Daisy S.
Titel	Aggressive Behavior in Response to Violence Exposure: Is It Adaptive for Middle-School Children?
Quelle	In: Journal of Community Psychology, 36 (2008) 8, S.1008-1025 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-4392
DOI	10.1002/jcop.20275
Schlagwörter	Violence; Delinquency; Aggression; Depression (Psychology); Middle Schools; Urban Areas; Correlation; Community; Prediction; Self Esteem; Gender Differences; Intervention; Secondary School Students; Longitudinal Studies; Student Behavior; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gewalt; Kriminalität; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Urban area; Stadtregion; Korrelation; Vorhersage; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sekundarschüler; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	The role of aggression in adaptation to family and community violence was examined in a sample of 667 inner-city schoolchildren studied annually over three years in middle school. Regression analyses indicated that the association between Year 1 exposure to family and community violence and Year 2 aggression was mediated by aggression occurring contemporaneously with Year 1 exposure. Cognitive justification of aggression and friends' delinquency made small independent contributions to prediction of Year 2 aggression, delinquency, and externalizing behaviors. Year 2 aggression mediated the association between Year 1 community violence victimization and Year 3 negative adaptation (internalizing problems, anxiety, and depression). Year 2 aggression also mediated the negative association between Year 1 witnessing community violence and Year 3 positive adaptation (self-esteem). Cognitive justification of aggression and friends' delinquency made independent contributions to Year 3 negative adaptation. The pattern of relations among variables infrequently varied by gender. Implications for intervention are discussed. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10