Political Violence and Child Adjustment: Longitudinal Tests of Sectarian Antisocial Behavior, Family Conflict and Insecurity as Explanatory Pathways

TitlePolitical Violence and Child Adjustment: Longitudinal Tests of Sectarian Antisocial Behavior, Family Conflict and Insecurity as Explanatory Pathways
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsCummings, E. M., C. E. Merrilees, A. C. Schermerhorn, M. C. Goeke-Morey, P. Shirlow, and E. Cairns
Understanding the impact of political violence on child maladjustment is a matter of international concern. Recent research has advanced a social ecological explanation for relations between political violence and child adjustment. However, conclusions are qualified by the lack of longitudinal tests. Towards examining pathways longitudinally, mothers and their adolescents (M = 12.33, SD =1.78, at time 1) from two-parent families in Catholic and Protestant working class neighborhoods in Belfast, Northern Ireland, completed measures assessing multiple levels of a social ecological model. Utilizing autoregressive controls, a three-wave longitudinal model test (T1, n = 299; T2, n = 248; T3, n = 197) supported a specific pathway linking sectarian community violence, family conflict, children’s insecurity about family relationships, and adjustment problems.
Title Political Violence and Child Adjustment: Longitudinal Tests of Sectarian Antisocial Behavior, Family Conflict and Insecurity as Explanatory Pathways
Publication Title Child Development
Publication Type Journal Article
Published Year 2012
Authors E.M. Cummings; C.E. Merrilees; A.C. Schermerhorn; M.C. Goeke-Morey; P. Shirlow; E. Cairns
Accession Number PMC3307389
Number 2
ISBN Number 0009-3920<br/>1467-8624
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