Author : Mytien T. Le
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Exposure to Violence Among Urban Late Adolescents and Young Adults by : Mytien T. Le
Download or read book Exposure to Violence Among Urban Late Adolescents and Young Adults written by Mytien T. Le and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youths and young adults living in high-risk, urban areas are more likely to be exposed to violence than their counterparts living in lower-risk communities. Research has explored protective factors for youth who have experienced community and family violence. Less is known about the role that activity involvement, specifically extracurricular activities (EC) and civic engagement (CE), serve among late adolescents and young adults in high-crime, urban communities. In this study, I examined the relation of community and family violence to aggression/violent behaviors and post-traumatic stress symptoms among urban late adolescents and young adults, as well as the potential protective effects of engaging in extracurricular and civic activities. The data are part of a 5-wave longitudinal project known as the Flint-Weapons Violence Study, which examines predictors of aggression and weapon violence among a sample of 426 youth growing up in Flint, MI (Bushman, Huesmann, Anderson, Gentile, et al., 2006; Huesmann et al., 2021). Using data from the 4th wave when the sample was between 18-25 years of age, the results indicate: 1) community violence exposure (but not family violence exposure) was positively related to aggressive/violent behaviors and post-traumatic stress symptoms; 2) most of the sample reported engaging in at least one extracurricular and one civic activity in the past year; 3) activity involvement did not moderate the relation between violence exposure and behavioral or emotional outcomes; and 4) negative peer influences did not moderate the relation between activity involvement and aggressive/violent behaviors. Results are discussed in relation to the need to collect more nuanced and comprehensive measures of activity involvement, and to assess developmental differences in the role of engaging in these activities in high-risk urban communities.