TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Inward- and outward-directed violence in the lives of urban minority adults followed from middle school into their thirties
JO  - American journal of community psychology
A1  - O'Donnell, Lydia
A1  - Vrba, Eric
A1  - Miller, Melanie
A1  - Dash, Kim
A1  - Kar, Heidi
A1  - Reed, Gerald A.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This study explores connections between inward-directed violence and outward-directed violence using data from the Reach for Health sample, which was originally recruited in the 1990s from three middle schools in economically distressed, predominantly African American neighborhoods of New York City. Now in their thirties, participants (N = 595) completed surveys assessing current suicidal thoughts and behaviors as well as other violence involvements, including intimate partner violence victimization and perpetration. About 10% of males and females reported any suicidal ideation or attempt in the past 12 months. In logistic regression analyses adjusting for sociodemographics, prior reports of feeling blue in middle school (OR: 1.12, CI: 1.02-4.39) and young adult suicidality (OR: 2.54, CI: 1.30-4.95) are significantly related to later suicidality. So are concurrent aggressive behaviors, including reports of physical fighting outside the home (OR: 2.70, CI: 1.29-5.67) and IPV perpetration (OR: 2.09, CI: 1.11-3.94). Neither IPV victimization nor witnessing neighborhood violence is correlated. <br><br>FINDINGS shed light on the persistence of suicidality in the lives of those who come of age, and often remain, in communities with high levels of poverty, and confirm linkages of suicidality with externally directed aggression. Life-stage interventions are needed to counter the interwoven causes and consequences of multiple forms of violence.<br><br>© 2019 Society for Community Research and Action.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0091-0562
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12408
ID  - ref1
ER  -