Citation

Kliewer W, Cunningham JN, Diehl R, Parrish KA, Walker JM, Atiyeh C, Neace B, Duncan L, Taylor K, Mejia R. J. Clin. Child Adolesc. Psychol. 2004; 33(3): 477-487.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 842018, Richmond, VA 23284-2018, USA. wkliewer@vcu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1207/s15374424jccp3303_5

PMID

15271605

Abstract

This short-term, longitudinal interview study used an ecological framework to explore protective factors within the child, the caregiver, the caregiver-child relationship, and the community that might moderate relations between community violence exposure and subsequent internalizing and externalizing adjustment problems and the different patterns of protection they might confer. Participants included 101 pairs of African American female caregivers and one of their children (56% male, M = 11.15 yrs, SD = 1.28) living in high-violence areas of a mid-sized southeastern city. Child emotion regulation skill, felt acceptance from caregiver, observed quality of caregiver-child interaction, and caregiver regulation of emotion each were protective, but the pattern of protection differed across level of the child's ecology and form of adjustment. Implications for prevention are discussed.

Language: en