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Specifying the Interrelationship Between Exposure to Violence and Parental Monitoring for Younger Versus Older Adolescents: A Five Year Longitudinal Test
Author(s) -
Spano Richard,
Rivera Craig,
Vazsonyi Alexander T.,
Bolland John M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-011-9456-8
Subject(s) - health psychology , longitudinal study , psychology , poverty , demography , developmental psychology , poison control , injury prevention , test (biology) , fragile families and child wellbeing study , public health , environmental health , medicine , ecology , sociology , biology , nursing , pathology , economics , economic growth
Abstract Five waves of longitudinal data collected from 349 African American youth living in extreme poverty were used to examine the interrelationship between exposure to violence and parenting during adolescence. Semi‐parametric group based modeling was used to identify trajectories of parental monitoring and exposure to violence from T1 to T5. Results from these analyses revealed: (1) a trajectory of declining parental monitoring for 48% of youth; and (2) four distinct trajectories of exposure to violence. Multivariate findings were largely consistent with the ecological‐transactional model of community violence. Youth with stable and/or increasing trajectories of exposure to violence were more likely than youth with stable‐low exposure to violence to have declining parental monitoring, but additional analyses revealed a similar pattern of findings for younger adolescents (age 9–11 T1), but no evidence of linkages between trajectories of exposure to violence and parental monitoring for older adolescents (age 12–16 T1). The theoretical and policy implications of these findings as well as areas for future research are also discussed.