STRESSFUL EVENTS AND INDIVIDUAL BELIEFS AS CORRELATES OF ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AND AGGRESSION AMONG URBAN CHILDREN
STRESSFUL EVENTS AND INDIVIDUAL BELIEFS AS CORRELATES OF ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE AND AGGRESSION AMONG URBAN CHILDREN
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-006x.63.4.518
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发表时间：
1995-08-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
ERON, LD
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作者：
GUERRA, NG;TOLAN, PH;ERON, LD
这项研究考察了3个假设会增加城市儿童攻击性风险的因素：经济劣势、压力事件和个人信念。参与者是1935名非裔美国人、西班牙裔和白人小学男孩和女孩，对他们进行了为期两年的评估。个人贫困与攻击性之间的关系只对白人儿童显著，其他两个民族的个人贫困与社区贫困之间存在显著的交互作用。通过从压力和信念变量预测攻击性的线性结构模型，个人贫困预测非裔美国儿童的压力，并预测支持西班牙裔儿童攻击性的信念。对于所有种族群体，压力和信念都对攻击性的同步预测做出了显著贡献，对于西班牙裔儿童，纵向预测也是显著的。讨论了这些发现对多民族、市中心社区的预防干预的影响。
This study examined 3 factors that were hypothesized to increase risk for aggression among urban children: economic disadvantage, stressful events, and individual beliefs. Participants were 1,935 African American, Hispanic, and White elementary-school boys and girls assessed over a 2-year period. The relation between individual poverty and aggression was only significant for the White children, with significant interactions between individual and community poverty for the other 2 ethnic groups. With a linear structural model to predict aggression from the stress and beliefs variables, individual poverty predicted stress for African American children and predicted beliefs supporting aggression for Hispanic children. For all ethnic groups, both stress and beliefs contributed significantly to the synchronous prediction of aggression, and for the Hispanic children, the longitudinal predictions were also significant. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for preventive interventions in multiethnic, inner-city communities.