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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-6-2013
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 (Mage = 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.
Keywords
community violence exposure, delinquency, future expectations, promotive factors
Publication Title
Youth & Society
Volume
48
Issue
1
First Page
33
Last Page
57
Rights
© The Author(s) 2013.
Recommended Citation
Chen P, Voisin DR, Jacobson KC. Community Violence Exposure and Adolescent Delinquency: Examining a Spectrum of Promotive Factors. Youth Soc. 2016 Jan;48(1):33-57. doi: 10.1177/0044118x13475827. Epub 2013 Feb 6. PMID: 33364640; PMCID: PMC7755159.
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Comments
This is a peer reviewed Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in Youth & Society, available at: 10.1177/0044118X13475827