title: Exposure to community violence and daily feeling states among urban African American youth.
abstract: This longitudinal study examined the relationships between exposure to community violence and daily feeling states among 175 6th- through 8th-grade African American students. The relationships were tested both cross-sectionally and longitudinally over the 3-year span. Four daily feeling state subscales: contented, hostile, anxious, and dysphoric were developed from a factor analysis of the 30 Experience Sampling Method (ESM) feeling states. Cross-sectionally, regression analyses indicated that exposure to violence individually predicted most feeling states and more variability in most feeling states in 7th and 8th grades. When feeling states were entered into regressions together, fewer predicted violence exposure. Longitudinally, regression analyses revealed that more variability in dysphoric feelings in 6th grade predicted exposure to violence in 7th grade, while 6th-grade hostile and anxious feelings predicted 8th-grade exposure change. Longitudinal analyses did not indicate that exposure to community violence predicted later daily feeling states. Preventive and intervention implications are addressed.
authors.affiliation: Beacon Street Gallery and Performance Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA. catherine.k.sweeney@gmail.com
authors.forename: Catherine K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Sweeney
authors.forename: Jonathon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goldner
authors.forename: Maryse H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000339:Affect; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012307:Risk Factors; D057566:Self Report; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data