The Effects of Community Violence Over Time in a Sample of Inner-City School Age Children
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2002
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Haverford College. Department of Psychology
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Research has shown that there is a correlation between children who have been exposed to community violence and poorer psychological functioning. In this study, exposure to various types of community violence was assessed for a cohort of inner city children at age seven and again at age ten. The Child Behavior Checklist and the Teacher Report Form were used to measure children's functioning on many scales including Total Problems, Externalizing, and Internalizing behaviors. Parents tended to significantly under-report the problem behaviors of their children. Teachers rated children exposed to chronic levels of high violence as having significantly more Total Problems, as well as Externalizing and Internalizing Problems, at both points in time. Lastly, type of violence moderated this relationship, as community witnessing of violence led to high levels of teacher ratings of Externalizing behaviors while Direct victimization led to higher teaching ratings of both Externalizing and Internalizing behaviors.