Economic Antecedents of Foster Care

Bibliographic Data

ID11054754
AuthorsRalph Catalano (0000-0001-7240-415X, University of California Berkeley California, corresponding author), Samuel Lind (St. Mary's College of California Moraga California), Samuel L Lind (Saint Mary's College of California), Abram Rosenblatt (University of California San Francisco California), Raymond Novaco (University of California Irvine California), Raymond W Novaco (0000-0002-3216-9033, University of California, Irvine)
Year2003
Volume32
Issue1-2
Pages47-56
Publication date2003-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1023/a:1025690722487
PMID14570434
OpenAlexW52514071
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited37

Individual and ecological research suggests that rising unemployment may affect the incidence of violence through two countervailing mechanisms suggested by frustration–aggression theory. The first, or provocation effect, assumes increased violence among persons who feel anger because they believe their job loss was arbitrary. The second, or inhibition effect, posits less violence among employed persons who attempt to reduce their chances of job loss by curtailing behavior objectionable to employers. The literature also reports that these mechanisms affect victimization measured as foster care sought by the state for abused children. The foster care finding, although consistent with theory and important for basic as well as applied reasons, arises from methods that cannot rule out several rival hypotheses. We revisit this research and apply improved methods to test the reported association in Los Angeles and San Francisco counties. We find that, as implied by the provocation and inhibition mechanisms, differences in monthly prevalence of foster care placements increase with modest increases in unemployment but decline when unemployment becomes much higher than usual levels

Affect (linguistics) · Aggression · Anger · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Health psychology · Injury prevention · Job loss · Poison control · Provocation test · Public health · Suicide prevention · Test (biology) · Unemployment · Clinical Psychology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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