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Transactional Process of African American Adolescents’ Family Conflict and Violent Behavior
Author(s) -
Choe Daniel Ewon,
Zimmerman Marc A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12056
Subject(s) - psychology , transactional leadership , socioeconomic status , structural equation modeling , developmental psychology , african american , interpersonal communication , social psychology , demography , population , statistics , history , ethnology , mathematics , sociology
This is the first longitudinal study of urban A frican A merican adolescents that has examined bidirectional effects between their family conflict and violent behavior across all of high school. Structured interviews were administered to 681 students each year in high school at ages 15, 16, 17, and 18 years. We used structural equation modeling to test a transactional model and found bidirectional effects between family conflict and violent behavior across the middle years of high school, while accounting for sex and socioeconomic status. Findings suggest a reciprocal process involving interpersonal conflict in African American families and adolescent engagement in youth violence.