TY - JOUR
T1 - Weapon violence in adolescence
T2 - Parent and school connectedness as protective factors
AU - Henrich, Christopher C.
AU - Brookmeyer, Kathryn A.
AU - Shahar, Golan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a core development grant to the third author (Principal Investigator) and the first author (Co-Principal Investigator) from the Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) through a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to Michael Merson, M.D. (No. P30 MH 62294). This research was based on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a program project designed by J. Richard Udry (PI) and Peter Bearman, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with cooperative funding participation by: the National Cancer Institute; the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; the National Institute of Drug Abuse; The National Institute of General Medical Sciences; the National Institute of Mental Health; the National Institute of Nursing Research; the Office of AIDS Research, NIH; the Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH; the Office of Population Affairs, DHHS; the National Center for Health Statistics, Center For Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS; the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, and the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2005/10/1
Y1 - 2005/10/1
N2 - Purpose: Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we investigated weapon violence involving violence exposure and commission, as well as the protective roles of parent and school connectedness over time. Methods: Adolescents from Add Health's core sample (N = 7033) were followed for one year over two waves of measurement. Results: Consistent with hypotheses, violence exposure and violence commission uniquely predicted each other over time. Also, adolescents who were more connected with their parents were less likely to commit weapon violence over time, and adolescents who were more connected to school were less likely to be exposed to weapon violence over time. However, neither domain of connectedness buffered adolescents from the effects of violence exposure on committing violence. Further, parent and school connectedness seemed to have more power as preventive rather than as mitigating factors in relation to weapon violence. Conclusion: Further research using a broader array of violence measures may reveal additional processes through which protective factors can help sever the link between weapon violence exposure and commission.
AB - Purpose: Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we investigated weapon violence involving violence exposure and commission, as well as the protective roles of parent and school connectedness over time. Methods: Adolescents from Add Health's core sample (N = 7033) were followed for one year over two waves of measurement. Results: Consistent with hypotheses, violence exposure and violence commission uniquely predicted each other over time. Also, adolescents who were more connected with their parents were less likely to commit weapon violence over time, and adolescents who were more connected to school were less likely to be exposed to weapon violence over time. However, neither domain of connectedness buffered adolescents from the effects of violence exposure on committing violence. Further, parent and school connectedness seemed to have more power as preventive rather than as mitigating factors in relation to weapon violence. Conclusion: Further research using a broader array of violence measures may reveal additional processes through which protective factors can help sever the link between weapon violence exposure and commission.
KW - Parent-child relationship
KW - Protective factors
KW - School connectedness
KW - Youth violence
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/25144505982
U2 - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2005.03.022
DO - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2005.03.022
M3 - Article
C2 - 16182141
AN - SCOPUS:25144505982
SN - 1054-139X
VL - 37
SP - 306
EP - 312
JO - Journal of Adolescent Health
JF - Journal of Adolescent Health
IS - 4
ER -
