@article{ref1,
title="Latino/a adolescents facing neighborhood dangers: an examination of community violence and gender-based harassment",
journal="American journal of community psychology",
year="2021",
author="Mora, Andrea S. and Ceballo, Rosario and Cranford, James A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="While ample research examines community violence as a serious public health problem that disproportionately affects minority adolescents, less attention focuses on adolescents' experiences of gender-based harassment in poor, urban neighborhoods. Using data from 416 urban, low-income Latino/a adolescents (53% female; M(age) = 15.5), this study examined (a) the relations between community violence exposure (CVE), gender-based harassment, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and (b) the role of parent-child cohesion as a moderator of the relations between CVE/harassment and PTSD symptoms. Whereas both CVE and gender-based harassment were associated with greater PTSD symptoms, the effect of gender-based harassment on PTSD symptoms was far greater than the effect of community violence. Additionally, the association between gender-based harassment and PTSD symptoms was exacerbated when parent-child cohesion was high, compared to when cohesion was low or average. Finally, Latino/a adolescents exposed to high levels of both CVE and gender-based harassment had worse PTSD symptoms compared to those exposed primarily to gender-based harassment, who in turn had worse PTSD symptoms than those exposed primarily to community violence. <br><br>FINDINGS highlight the importance of including adolescents' experiences with gender-based harassment when studying community violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0562",
doi="10.1002/ajcp.12556",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12556"
}