Political Violence and Child Adjustment

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. Toward examining pathways longitudinally, mothers and their adolescents (M = 12.33, SD = 1.78, at Time 1) from 2-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 3-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

Child discipline · Criminology · Developmental psychology · Explanatory model · Explanatory power · Injury prevention · Longitudinal study · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Suicide prevention · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Social Psychology

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