Community Disorder, Victimization Exposure, and Mental Health in a National Sample of Youth

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dc.contributor.authorTurner, Heather A. ; Shattuck, Anne ; Hamby, Sherry ; Finkelhor, David
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-03T13:52:05Z
dc.date.available2018-05-03T13:52:05Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis study considers whether elevated distress among youth living in more disordered neighborhoods can be explained by personal exposure to violence and victimization, level of non-victimization adversity, and family support. Analyses were based on a sample of 2,039 youth ages 10 to 17 who participated in the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence, a national telephone survey conducted in 2008. Using structural equation modeling, we find no direct effects of community disorder on distress, once the significant mediating effects of victimization, family support, and adversity are taken into account. Using a comprehensive measure of victimization covering several domains of experiences, we show that past-year exposure to child maltreatment, sexual victimization, peer assault and bullying, and property crime each significantly mediate the community disorder–distress association. A measure of the total number of victimization types to which youth were exposed (i.e., level of “poly-victimization”) had the strongest mediating effect. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationTurner, Heather A. ; Shattuck, Anne ; Hamby, Sherry ; Finkelhor, David. (2013). Community Disorder, Victimization Exposure, and Mental Health in a National Sample of Youth. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 54(2), 258-275.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022146513479384
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3803
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Interpersonal Violenceen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectadolescentsen_US
dc.subjectAdverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)en_US
dc.subjectrisk factorsen_US
dc.subjectsocial factorsen_US
dc.subjectpsychological effectsen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.titleCommunity Disorder, Victimization Exposure, and Mental Health in a National Sample of Youthen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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