title: The impact of parental trauma exposure on community violence exposed adolescents.
abstract: Previous research has documented an association between adolescent community violence (CV) exposure and poor psychological functioning. The purpose of this study was to delineate the relations of adolescent CV, parent trauma exposure (PTE), and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptomatology while controlling for adolescent-reported home violence and parental self-reported posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Participants consisted of 101 pairs of junior high school and high school students and their parents or caretakers. Adolescents completed measures to assess their history of violence exposure in the community and home setting and current internalizing symptoms. Parents or caretakers completed a demographic questionnaire, a measure assessing their trauma exposure and related symptomatology, and a measure of child externalizing symptoms. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted; results indicated that after controlling for demographic variables, home violence exposure, and parental PTSD symptoms, PTE emerged as a moderator variable in the relationship between CV and adolescent-rated internalizing symptoms but not in the association between adolescent CV and externalizing symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Georgia State University, Institute of Public Health, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA. sselfbrown@gsu.edu
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Self-Brown
authors.forename: Monique M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: LeBlanc
authors.forename: Kimberly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: David
authors.forename: Desti
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shepard
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hodges
authors.forename: Mary Lou
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Kelley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012925:Social Conformity; D012931:Social Environment; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*