Exposure to violence and parenting as mediators between poverty and psychological symptoms in urban African American adolescents

The present study builds on past research that has found support for a conceptual model in which poverty is linked with adolescent psychological symptoms through economic stressors and impaired parenting. The present study examined this model in a sample of urban African American mothers and their a...

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Published in:Journal of adolescence (London, England.) England.), 2005-08, Vol.28 (4), p.507-521
Main Authors: Grant, Kathryn E., McCormick, Anthony, Poindexter, LaShaunda, Simpkins, Tandra, Janda, Cassandra M., Thomas, Kina J., Campbell, Amanda, Carleton, Russell, Taylor, Jeremy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
African Americans
African Americans - statistics & numerical data
Biological and medical sciences
Black American people
Child
Child Rearing
Community violence
Economic Problems
Family - psychology
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Medical sciences
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Mental Disorders - ethnology
Mental health
Parent Child Relations
Parenting
Parenting style
Parents & parenting
Poverty
Psychological problems
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk factors
Social Environment
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Sociocultural environment
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Symptoms
Teenagers
Urban Areas
Urban Population - statistics & numerical data
Urban Youth
USA
Violence
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Summary:The present study builds on past research that has found support for a conceptual model in which poverty is linked with adolescent psychological symptoms through economic stressors and impaired parenting. The present study examined this model in a sample of urban African American mothers and their adolescent children. In addition, an alternative hypothesis was examined: that exposure to community violence mediates the relation between poverty and psychological symptoms in urban youth. Limited support was found for a model in which poverty is linked with internalizing symptoms through exposure to community violence and with externalizing symptoms through economic stressors and inconsistent discipline. Interpretations, limitations, and directions for future research are outlined.
ISSN:0140-1971
1095-9254
DOI:10.1016/j.adolescence.2004.12.001