Citation

Udell WA, Hotton AL, Emerson E, Donenberg GR. J. Child Fam. Stud. 2017; 26(9): 2556-2563.

Affiliation

University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10826-017-0769-6

PMID

29085237

PMCID

PMC5659629

Abstract

The present study examined whether parental monitoring buffers the negative effects of communtity violence exposure on probation youth's substance use and sexual risk behaviors. Among a sample of 347 Chicago youth on probation, ages 13-17 years, parental monitoring did not moderate the relationship between community violence exposure and probation youth's sexual risk and substance use. However, parental monitoring was independently associated with less engagement in sexual risk and substance use, and community violence exposure was independently associated with more risk behavior among probation youth. The present study contributes to the growing literature on the impact of community violence exposure and parenting on adjudicated youth risk.

Language: en