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Political Violence and Child Adjustment in Northern Ireland: Testing Pathways in a Social-Ecological Model Including Single- and Two-Parent Families
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Cummings, E. Mark; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Merrilees, Christine E.; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cairns, Ed – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Moving beyond simply documenting that political violence negatively impacts children, we tested a social-ecological hypothesis for relations between political violence and child outcomes. Participants were 700 mother-child (M = 12.1 years, SD = 1.8) dyads from 18 working-class, socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, including…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Prosocial Behavior, Children, Foreign Countries
Community Violence, Family Conflict, and Preschoolers' Socioemotional Functioning
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Farver, Jo Ann M.; Xu, Yiyuan; Eppe, Stefanie; Fernandez, Alicia; Schwartz, David – Developmental Psychology, 2005
This study examined the relations among family conflict, community violence, and young children's socioemotional functioning and explored how children's social cognition and mothers' psychological functioning may mediate the outcomes associated with this exposure. Mothers of 431 Head Start preschoolers completed questionnaires about their family…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Conflict, Interpersonal Competence, Social Cognition
Initial Behavior Outcomes for the PeaceBuilders Universal School-Based Violence Prevention Program.
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Flannery, Daniel J.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Assigned elementary schools to either immediate postbaseline intervention (PBI) with PeaceBuilders, a school-based violence prevention program, or to intervention 1 year later (PBD). Found significant gains in social competence for kindergarten through second-graders in Year 1, in peace-building behavior in Grades K to 5, and reduced aggression in…
Descriptors: Aggression, Change Strategies, Children, Educational Environment
Developmental Trajectories toward Violence in Middle Childhood: Course, Demographic Differences, and Response to School-Based Intervention.
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Aber, J. Lawrence; Brown, Joshua L.; Jones, Stephanie M. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Examined developmental trajectories toward violence over middle childhood and children's response to a universal school-based preventive intervention. Found that three growth patterns--positive linear, late acceleration, and gradual deceleration--characterized the children's trajectories, and these trajectories varied meaningfully by child…
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Comparative Analysis, Demography