Efficacy to avoid violence and parenting: A moderated mediation of violence exposure for African American urban-dwelling boys.
Efficacy to avoid violence and parenting: A moderated mediation of violence exposure for African American urban-dwelling boys.
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DOI：
10.1017/s0954579422000098
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发表时间：
2022-05
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Alvin Thomas;S. Assari;E. Odukoya;C. Caldwell
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作者：
Alvin Thomas;S. Assari;E. Odukoya;C. Caldwell
我们采取了一种风险和弹性的方法来调查目睹身体暴力如何影响青少年的暴力行为。我们提出了有效性，以避免暴力作为影响青少年发展的这一消极轨迹的主要途径。我们还专注于保护作用的养育行为的非洲裔美国男孩生活在弱势环境。我们的310名非洲裔美国青少年男性样本（M年龄= 13.50，SD = 0.620）中的大多数都经历过大量的暴力，但他们也报告了避免暴力的持续有效性。我们测试了第一阶段的双重调节调解模型，发现更高水平的目睹暴力导致更多的暴力行为和更低的效率，以避免暴力，而这种效率是在这一联系的调解人。目睹更多暴力行为的青少年可能会觉得参与暴力行为是不可避免的，因此他们自己最终也会参与暴力行为，这些有问题的长期轨迹由于父母关于暴力行为的沟通和监测而得到缓和，这些沟通和监测揭示了对青少年的可能保护，并增强了青少年的内在力量。我们的研究结果提出了可以为干预措施提供信息的途径，这些干预措施可以保护非洲裔美国青少年免受暴力行为的恶性循环。
We took a risk and resilience approach to investigating how witnessing physical violence influences adolescent violent behaviors overtime. We proposed efficacy to avoid violence as a major path of influence in this negative trajectory of adolescent development. We also focus on the protective roles of parenting behaviors for African American boys living in disadvantaged contexts. Most of our sample of 310 African American adolescent males (M age = 13.50, SD = .620) had experienced significant amounts of violence, but they also reported continued efficacy to avoid violence. We tested a first stage dual moderated mediation model and found that higher levels of witnessing violence lead to more violent behavior and less efficacy to avoid violence, and that efficacy was the mediator in that link. Youth who witness more violence may feel that engagement in violence is inescapable and thus may themselves end up engaging in it. These problematic long-term trajectories were moderated by parent's communication about violence and monitoring revealing possible protections for youth, and an enhancement of youths' internal strengths. Our findings propose pathways that can inform interventions that may protect African American adolescent boys against the vicious cycle of exposure to, and acts of, violence.