A preliminary examination of emotional and cognitive mediators in the relations between violence exposure and violent behaviors in youth

Allwood, Maureen A.; Bell, Debora J.

doi:10.1002/jcop.20277

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“…As a result, youth with PTSD are more prone to aggressive and violent responding in situations that resemble the initial trauma experience (Chemtob et al 1997). One study reported that PTSD symptoms partially mediated the association between exposure to violence at home and in the community and violent behavior in 123 primarily White middle-school students (Allwood and Bell 2008). However, when they split the sample by gender they found that the effect was strongest for girls and that for boys alone, PTSD symptoms did not relate to violence as it did for girls.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Few published studies have directly examined the mediating role of PTSD symptoms in the link between violence exposure and perpetration (Allwood and Bell 2008;Ruchkin et al 2002). Similar to anger, for those with PTSD, the initial trauma experience leading to the development of symptoms, are believed to sensitize the brain to similar environmental and situational cues (Kendall-Tackett 2000).…”

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Anger Mediates the Relation Between Violence Exposure and Violence Perpetration in Incarcerated Boys

Kimonis

Ray

Branch

et al. 2010

Child Youth Care Forum

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Youth who are exposed to violence are more likely to perpetrate violence. Incarcerated youth are a special population that is at a significantly greater risk for violent offending because of their relatively greater rates of violence exposure. Two important outcomes of violence exposure that may help explain its link with violence perpetration are posttraumatic stress disorder and problematic anger. The primary aim of the current study is to examine whether these important risk factors mediate the relation between two types of violence exposure (i.e., witnessing and victimization) and various types of violence perpetration in a sample of 373 incarcerated male adolescent offenders. A second aim is to test whether another well-established correlate of violence in youth, callous-unemotional (CU) traits (lack of empathy, guilt), adds unique variance beyond violence exposure, anger, and PTSD symptomatology. Findings suggest that anger is a robust predictor of violence and appears to at least partially act as the mechanism through which violence exposure is linked with violence perpetration. CU traits also contribute unique variance, beyond the significant effect of anger, to the statistical prediction of community, but not institutional, violence.

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Anger Mediates the Relation Between Violence Exposure and Violence Perpetration in Incarcerated Boys

Kimonis

Ray

Branch

et al. 2010

Child Youth Care Forum

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“…However, neighborhood violence exposure also might impact parents, leading to disrupted family communication and decreased social support from parents that help adolescents cope with exposure (Overstreet & Braun). Parental functioning might be impacted less by school violence compared with neighborhood violence, and so different protective factors might be needed for neighborhood and school violence exposure (Grossman, Beinashowitz, Anderson, & Sakurai, 1992), offering further support that the creation of successful separate prevention and intervention programs for violence in the school and neighborhood settings might be warranted (Allwood & Bell, 2008;Guterman et al, 2000).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Recent research distinguishing violence observed at school and in the neighborhood indicated that there are unique associations between settings and psychological outcomes, with adolescents exposed to school violence faring worse than those exposed to violence in their neighborhoods (Mrug et al). Such findings suggest that context might be important to the creation of prevention and intervention programs (Allwood & Bell, 2008;Guterman et al). It might be that factors buffering youth from the negative consequences of violence might be setting-specific.…”

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Buffering the effects of violence: communication and problem‐solving skills as protective factors for adolescents exposed to violence

LeBlanc

Self-Brown

Shepard

et al. 2011

Journal Community Psychology

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Although many adolescents exposed to violence evidence negative outcomes, some report few deleterious effects, indicating the presence of moderating variables. This study examined the moderating role of family communication and problem solving on positive and negative outcomes in adolescents exposed to school and neighborhood violence. Participants were 90 adolescents and their parents, who completed measures of violence exposure, psychological and behavioral functioning, and communication and problem-solving skills. Results indicated that after controlling for demographic variables and violence exposure in the home, communication and problem-solving skills moderated the association between school and neighborhood violence exposure and psychological distress. There was no moderation of the violence exposure-positive outcome association. The findings suggest that family communication and problem-solving skills might serve a protective function for adolescents, thereby decreasing Correspondence to:

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“…Guerra and colleagues (2003) examined the mediating role of social cognition between violence exposure and aggression in an ethnically diverse sample of 4,458 children living in urban neighborhoods and found that the relation between violence exposure and aggression in high school students (Grades 9-12) was partially mediated by social cognition. Allwood and Bell (2008), in a sample of 123 adolescents, found that PTSD symptoms and acceptance of violence cognitions fully mediated the relation between violence exposure and aggressive behavior and the relation differed for boys and girls.…”

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Pathways to aggression in urban elementary school youth

Özkol

Zucker

Spinazzola

2011

Journal Community Psychology

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This study examined the pathways from violence exposure to aggressive behaviors in urban, elementary school youth. We utilized structural equation modeling to examine putative causal pathways between children's exposure to violence, development of posttraumatic stress symptoms, permissive attitudes towards violence, and engagement in aggressive behaviors. Self-report measures were administered to 259 4th-grade students from urban schools. Almost 100% of participants reported exposure to at least one experience with violence. Results demonstrated that both posttraumatic stress symptoms and attitudes toward violence mediated the relation between exposure to violence and aggression. This model suggests that the relation between violence exposure and youth violence and aggression is multidetermined, suggesting the need for both the developmental adaptation of tertiary prevention and intervention strategies so as to be suitable for younger children, as well as the need for multiple or multifaceted interventions. C 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.One of the biggest problems in contemporary society is violence, and violence perpetrated by and against youth is startlingly common. Between 1993 and 2003, juveniles were identified as either victims or offenders in 38% of all violent crimes in which offender age could be estimated (Baum, 2005). In 2006, homicide was the second leading cause of death for 15-to 24-year-olds and the third leading cause for

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A preliminary examination of emotional and cognitive mediators in the relations between violence exposure and violent behaviors in youth

Cited by 65 publications

References 48 publications

Anger Mediates the Relation Between Violence Exposure and Violence Perpetration in Incarcerated Boys

Anger Mediates the Relation Between Violence Exposure and Violence Perpetration in Incarcerated Boys

Buffering the effects of violence: communication and problem‐solving skills as protective factors for adolescents exposed to violence

Pathways to aggression in urban elementary school youth

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