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Residential mobility and exposure to neighborhood crime: risks for young children's aggression

✍ Scribed by Maria E. Parente; Joseph L. Mahoney

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 159 KB
Volume: 37
Category: Article
ISSN: 0090-4392
DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20314

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Abstract

This three‐year longitudinal study investigated associations between residential mobility, neighborhood crime, and aggression during middle childhood. Participants were 460 children (M age = 6.9 years, SD = 1.1) residing in a disadvantaged city in the Northeastern United States. Residential mobility was determined from school records, teachers provided ratings of aggression, and city police reports of call complaints provided information on neighborhood crime. Neighborhoods were classified as average or high crime. Results showed that mobility and neighborhood crime were significantly (p<.05) related to boys' (but not girls') aggression. Boys' aggression was relatively high if they: (1) moved; (2) had stable residence in a high‐crime neighborhood; and (3) both moved and lived in high crime. Net of demographic characteristics and baseline adjustment, boys who moved from an average to high‐crime neighborhood showed particularly high aggression. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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