Citation

Boyd RC, Wooden TD, Munro MA, Liu T, ten Have T. J. Child Adolesc. Trauma 2008; 1(4): 287-299.

Affiliation

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1080/19361520802505669

PMID

20037666

PMCID

PMC2796835

Abstract

The dual risk of exposure to community violence and maternal depression has potentially negative effects on children. This study examined whether social skills served as a protective factor for the impact of community violence exposure on anxiety within children of African American mothers with depression. Multiple regressions showed that community violence exposure was associated with less anxious coping but more physical symptoms. Findings support that younger children who view themselves as being socially skilled also exhibit higher levels of anxious coping. Implications addressing the importance of age, physical symptoms of anxiety, and anxious vigilance for interventions are discussed.

Language: en