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What Happens After School? Linking Latino Adolescents’ Activities and Exposure to Community Violence

Although community violence and the deleterious behavioral and psychological consequences that are associated with exposure to community violence persist as serious public health concerns, identifying malleable factors that increase or decrease adolescents’ risk of exposure to community violence rem...

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Autores principales: Ceballo, Rosario, Cranford, James A., Alers-Rojas, Francheska, Jocson, Rosanne M., Kennedy, Traci M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34302582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01480-6
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author Ceballo, Rosario
Cranford, James A.
Alers-Rojas, Francheska
Jocson, Rosanne M.
Kennedy, Traci M.
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Cranford, James A.
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description Although community violence and the deleterious behavioral and psychological consequences that are associated with exposure to community violence persist as serious public health concerns, identifying malleable factors that increase or decrease adolescents’ risk of exposure to community violence remains a significant gap in our knowledge base. This longitudinal study addresses this research gap by investigating adolescents’ endorsement of familismo values and participation in three types of after-school activities, specifically home-, school-, and community-based activities, as potential precursors to adolescents’ risk for experiencing community violence. The sample consists of 416 Latino high school students (53% female) with a mean age of 15.5 years (SD = 1.0) and with 85% qualifying for free and reduced school lunch. Cross-sectional results demonstrated that adolescents’ endorsement of the Latino cultural value of familismo was associated with lower rates of personal victimization. The frequency of non-structured community-based activities and part-time work were concurrently associated with higher rates of witnessing community violence and being personally victimized by violence. Only the frequency of non-structured community-based activities was related to witnessing more community violence and greater victimization one year later while controlling for prior exposure to violence. These findings underscore the importance of providing structured, well supervised after-school activities for low-income youth in high-risk neighborhoods.
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spelling pubmed-83080822021-07-26 What Happens After School? Linking Latino Adolescents’ Activities and Exposure to Community Violence Ceballo, Rosario Cranford, James A. Alers-Rojas, Francheska Jocson, Rosanne M. Kennedy, Traci M. J Youth Adolesc Empirical Research Although community violence and the deleterious behavioral and psychological consequences that are associated with exposure to community violence persist as serious public health concerns, identifying malleable factors that increase or decrease adolescents’ risk of exposure to community violence remains a significant gap in our knowledge base. This longitudinal study addresses this research gap by investigating adolescents’ endorsement of familismo values and participation in three types of after-school activities, specifically home-, school-, and community-based activities, as potential precursors to adolescents’ risk for experiencing community violence. The sample consists of 416 Latino high school students (53% female) with a mean age of 15.5 years (SD = 1.0) and with 85% qualifying for free and reduced school lunch. Cross-sectional results demonstrated that adolescents’ endorsement of the Latino cultural value of familismo was associated with lower rates of personal victimization. The frequency of non-structured community-based activities and part-time work were concurrently associated with higher rates of witnessing community violence and being personally victimized by violence. Only the frequency of non-structured community-based activities was related to witnessing more community violence and greater victimization one year later while controlling for prior exposure to violence. These findings underscore the importance of providing structured, well supervised after-school activities for low-income youth in high-risk neighborhoods. Springer US 2021-07-24 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8308082/ /pubmed/34302582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01480-6 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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title_sort what happens after school? linking latino adolescents’ activities and exposure to community violence
topic Empirical Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308082/
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