Missed, Dissed, and Pissed": Making Meaning of Neighborhood Risk, Fear and Anger Management in Urban Black Youth.

Stevenson, Howard C.

doi:10.1037/1099-9809.3.1.37

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“…Thus, extended family members are intimately involved in the child-rearing and household activities in many African American families (Boyd-Franklin 1989;Franklin 1997). Kinship support is linked to better anger management in African American youth growing up in high risk neighborhoods (Stevenson 1997). In addition, kinship support has been found to lessen the association between negative contextual influences, including financial stress and maladaptive parenting practices, and youth internalizing and externalizing difficulties (Taylor 2010;Taylor et al 2014).…”

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Family Resources as Protective Factors for Low-Income Youth Exposed to Community Violence

Hardaway

Sterrett-Hong

Larkby

et al. 2016

J Youth Adolescence

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Exposure to community violence is a risk factor for internalizing and externalizing problems; however, resources within the family can decrease the likelihood that adolescents will experience internalizing and externalizing problems as a result of such exposure. This study investigates the potential moderating effects of kinship support (i.e., emotional and tangible support from extended family) and parental involvement on the relation between exposure to community violence (i.e., witnessing violence and violent victimization) and socioemotional adjustment (i.e., internalizing and externalizing problems) in low-income adolescents. The sample included 312 (50 % female; 71 % African American and 29 % White) low-income youth who participated in a longitudinal investigation when adolescents were age 14 (M age = 14.49 years) and again when they were 16 (M age = 16.49 years). Exposure to community violence at age 14 was related to more internalizing and externalizing problems at age 16. High levels of kinship support and parental involvement appeared to function as protective factors, weakening the association between exposure to violence and externalizing problems. Contrary to prediction, none of the hypothesized protective factors moderated the association between exposure to violence and internalizing problems. The results from this study suggest that both kinship support and parental involvement help buffer adolescents from externalizing problems that are associated with exposure to community violence.

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Section: Kinship Supportmentioning

confidence: 97%

Family Resources as Protective Factors for Low-Income Youth Exposed to Community Violence

Hardaway

Sterrett-Hong

Larkby

et al. 2016

J Youth Adolescence

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“…In one of the only studies of neighborhood connection, Witherspoon and Hughes (2005) found that feelings of connectedness are positively associated to grades after adjusting for structural neighborhood and perceived negative neighborhood characteristics. Furthermore, the literature suggests that neighborhood characteristics, such as perceived problems (Aneshensel & Sucoff, 1996;Seidman et al, 1998), residential mobility (Sampson et al, 1997), and pervasive fears associated with living in urban areas (Stevenson, 1997) are related to adolescent academic and psycho-social well-being and may be associated with lower levels of connectedness to the neighborhood (Witherspoon & Hughes, 2005), making it necessary to assess perceived negative neighborhood characteristics and residential mobility when examining neighborhood connection. It is also important to note that, similar to schools, neighborhoods afford youth opportunities to connect with peers.…”

Section: Connection To the Context: Neighborhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Connecting the Dots: How Connectedness to Multiple Contexts Influences the Psychological and Academic Adjustment of Urban Youth

Witherspoon

Schotland

Way

et al. 2009

Applied Developmental Science

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Cluster analyses and hierarchical linear modeling were used to investigate the impact of perceptions of connectedness to family, school, and neighborhood contexts on academic and psycho-social outcomes for 437 urban ethnically diverse adolescents. Five profiles of connectedness to family, school, and neighborhood were identified. Two profiles were characterized by reports of either strong or weak connectedness to all contexts. The other three profiles were anchored by reports of low family connectedness, low neighborhood connectedness, or average connectedness. Race=ethnic differences were found in profiles and outcomes. Hierarchical linear models showed that each profile of connectedness was significantly associated with adolescents' self-report of grades, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms after adjusting for correlates, suggesting that the domain and number of contexts matter for positive youth development. These analyses underscore the importance of considering the independent and joint effects of family, schools, and neighborhoods on adolescent well-being. Implications for research and intervention are discussed.

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“…Some youth may be socialized to appear tough or unafraid in the face of real danger as a means of coping or survival. This tough stance may in turn support aggressive responses to perceived or actual threats to safety (e.g., Spencer et al 1995;Stevenson 1997). Both explicit and implicit messages from parents, such as those encouraging the use of aggression (e.g., "If someone hits you, you should hit them back") may also influence normative beliefs about aggression and aggressive behavior (e.g., Copeland-Linder et al 2007;Orpinas et al 1999;Solomon et al 2008).…”

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Patterns of Adolescents’ Beliefs About Fighting and Their Relation to Behavior and Risk Factors for Aggression

Farrell

Bettencourt

Mays

et al. 2012

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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This study examined adolescents' patterns of beliefs about aggression, and how these patterns relate to aggressive and prosocial behavior, and to risk factors associated with aggression. A sample of 477 sixth graders from two urban schools and a school in a nearby county completed measures of beliefs, behavior, and individual, peer and parental factors associated with aggression. Teacher ratings of participants' behavior and emotion regulation were also obtained. The urban sample was 84% African American; the county school was in a rural fringe area with a student population that was 45% Caucasian and 40% African American. Latent class analysis of items on a beliefs measure supported hypotheses predicting three groups: (a) a Beliefs Against Fighting (BAGF) group that opposed the use of aggression (31% of the sample); (b) a Fighting is Sometimes Necessary (FSNEC) group that endorsed beliefs that fighting is sometimes necessary or inevitable (41%), and (c) a Beliefs Supporting Fighting (BSUPF) group that supported aggression across multiple contexts (28%). Differences across groups were found on race/ethnicity and family structure, but not on gender. Significant differences were also found such that the FSNEC group fell between levels of the BAGF and BSUPF groups on most measures. In contrast, the FSNEC and BAGF groups both differed from the BSUPF group, but not from each other on measures of empathy, perceived effectiveness of nonviolence and aggression, and parental messages supporting nonviolence. These differences suggest the need for tailoring prevention approaches for subgroups of adolescents who differ in their patterns of beliefs.

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Missed, Dissed, and Pissed": Making Meaning of Neighborhood Risk, Fear and Anger Management in Urban Black Youth.

Cited by 86 publications

References 39 publications

Family Resources as Protective Factors for Low-Income Youth Exposed to Community Violence

Family Resources as Protective Factors for Low-Income Youth Exposed to Community Violence

Connecting the Dots: How Connectedness to Multiple Contexts Influences the Psychological and Academic Adjustment of Urban Youth

Patterns of Adolescents’ Beliefs About Fighting and Their Relation to Behavior and Risk Factors for Aggression

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