TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Latino/a adolescents facing neighborhood dangers: an examination of community violence and gender-based harassment
JO  - American journal of community psychology
A1  - Mora, Andrea S.
A1  - Ceballo, Rosario
A1  - Cranford, James A.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0091-0562
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12556
ID  - ref1
ER  -