TY - JOUR PY - 2007// TI - Neighborhood crime and self-care: risks for aggression and lower academic performance JO - Developmental psychology A1 - Lord, Heather A1 - Mahoney, Joseph L. SP - 1321 EP - 1333 VL - 43 IS - 6 N2 - This longitudinal study evaluated associations among official rates of neighborhood crime, academic performance, and aggression in a sample of 581 children in 1st-3rd grade (6.3-10.6 years old). It was hypothesized that the influence of crime depends on children's unsupervised exposure to the neighborhood context through self-care. Average weekly hours in self-care were trichotomized into low (0-3), moderate (4-9), and high (10-15). Moderate and high amounts of self-care were linked to increased aggression and decreased academic performance for children from high-crime areas (11,230 crimes per 100,000 persons) but not average-crime areas, when the authors controlled for neighborhood, family, and child covariates. In high-crime areas, academic outcomes were more favorable when self-care occurred in combination with after-school program participation.

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LA - en SN - 0012-1649 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1321 ID - ref1 ER -