Citation

Rosenthal BS, Hutton EM. Psychol. Rep. 2001; 88(2): 367-374.

Affiliation

York College and Graduate Center, Social Sciences Department, City University of New York, Jamaica, NY, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11351873

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison for two samples (college and noncollege) of older, urban African-American adolescents of correlations between two measures of exposure to community violence (victim and witness) and four types of psychological trauma symptoms (anger, anxiety, depression, and dissociation). The central issue is the generalizability of previous findings about these relationships obtained from beginning college students of traditional age. The two samples did not differ in the magnitude of either the zero-order correlations or the multiple correlations between the two types of exposure to community violence and the four types of symptoms of trauma. The conclusion is that findings regarding the relationship of exposure to community violence with psychological symptoms of trauma obtained from college students may tentatively be generalized to older adolescents who are not in college.

Language: en