Fowler Patrick J, Ahmed Sawssan R, Tompsett Carolyn J, Jozefowicz-Simbeni Debra M H, Toro Paul A
Wayne State University.
J Community Psychol. 2008 Sep 1;36(7):835-850. doi: 10.1002/jcop.20267.
The present study examined racial differences in the relationship between exposure to community violence and public and private religiosity in predicting externalizing problems among at-risk emerging adults. Participants were 178 African American and 163 European American emerging adults at risk for exposure to community violence. Exposure to community violence related to more externalizing problems. Greater public religious affiliation buffered the relationship between community violence and substance abuse, for both African American and European emerging adults. In addition, more privately religious African American emerging adults engaged in less deviant behavior when exposed to higher levels of community violence. European Americans were not protected by private religiosity.
本研究考察了社区暴力暴露与公共及个人宗教信仰之间的关系在预测高危新兴成年人外化问题方面的种族差异。参与者为178名有社区暴力暴露风险的非裔美国新兴成年人和163名有社区暴力暴露风险的欧裔美国新兴成年人。社区暴力暴露与更多外化问题相关。对于非裔美国和欧裔新兴成年人而言，更强的公共宗教归属缓冲了社区暴力与药物滥用之间的关系。此外，在面临更高水平的社区暴力时，更多有个人宗教信仰的非裔美国新兴成年人的偏差行为较少。欧裔美国人未受到个人宗教信仰的保护。
