The role of community risks and resources in the psychosocial adjustment of at-risk children: An examination across two community contexts and two informants
The role of community risks and resources in the psychosocial adjustment of at-risk children: An examination across two community contexts and two informants
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DOI：
10.1016/s0005-7894(00)80022-2
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发表时间：
2000-06-01
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Stock, M
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作者：
Forehand, R;Brody, GH;Stock, M
相对于对家庭的关注，儿童生活的大环境得到的关注很少。这项研究调查了277名来自单亲家庭的非洲裔美国儿童，他们生活在两个社区环境中：农村和城市。对每个社区内的资源和风险进行了跨社区比较。此外，社区，社区环境（资源风险指数）的关系，以及这两个变量对儿童心理社会适应的交互作用进行了研究。最后，研究了知情人（母亲或儿童）的作用。结果表明，来自城市社区的母亲和儿童比来自农村社区的母亲和儿童报告更多的风险。社区环境，而不是社区（农村与城市），始终与儿童心理社会调整，但只有当同一个线人（母亲或儿童）报告的资源风险指数和儿童心理社会调整。社区不符合这种关系。预防和干预方案的影响被认为是。
Relative to the attention given to the family, the larger environmental context in which children live has received little attention. This study examined 277 African American children from single-parent families living in two community contexts: rural and urban. Resources and risks within each community were compared across communities. Furthermore, the relations of community, community environment (a resource-risk index), and the interaction of these two variables to child psychosocial adjustment were examined. Finally, the role of informant (mother or child) was examined. The results indicated that the mothers and children from the urban community reported more risks than those fam the rural community. The community environment, but not community (rural vs, urban), related consistently to child psychosocial adjustment but only when the same informant (mother or child) reported both the resource-risk index and child psychosocial adjustment. Community did not qualify this relationship. Implications for prevention and intervention programs are considered.