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Community violence and externalizing problems: moderating effects of race and religiosity in emerging adulthood
Author(s) -
Fowler Patrick J.,
Ahmed Sawssan R.,
Tompsett Carolyn J.,
JozefowiczSimbeni Debra M. H.,
Toro Paul A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.20267
Subject(s) - religiosity , psychology , race (biology) , african american , domestic violence , clinical psychology , suicide prevention , poison control , social psychology , medicine , sociology , environmental health , gender studies , ethnology
The present study examined racial differences in the relationship between exposure to community violence and public and private religiosity in predicting externalizing problems among at‐risk emerging adults. Participants were 178 African American and 163 European American emerging adults at risk for exposure to community violence. Exposure to community violence related to more externalizing problems. Greater public religious affiliation buffered the relationship between community violence and substance abuse, for both African American and European emerging adults. In addition, more privately religious African American emerging adults engaged in less deviant behavior when exposed to higher levels of community violence. European Americans were not protected by private religiosity. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.