Developmental Psychobiology Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 1300 E. 17th Place, F546, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2019 Dec;50(6):883-893. doi: 10.1007/s10578-019-00890-9.
The current cross-sectional study examined whether internalizing (i.e. anxiety and depressive) symptoms and/or emotion dysregulation moderated the association between witnessed community violence and aggressive behavior. Participants were 180 predominantly African American adolescents (62% girls; M age = 15.87 years, SD = 1.19 years) from a high school located in an urban community in the United States. Approximately 95% of adolescents reported having witnessed at least one violent act during their lifetimes, with many endorsing repeated exposure to severe acts of community violence. Results indicated that emotion dysregulation exacerbated the association between witnessed community violence and aggression. A quadratic effect of anxiety symptoms also moderated this association, such that witnessed community violence was linked to aggression at low and high, but not moderate, levels of anxiety symptoms. In contrast, a quadratic effect of depressive symptoms was uniquely related to aggression, regardless of witnessed community violence. Directions for future research and implications for practice are reviewed.
本横断面研究旨在探讨内化症状（即焦虑和抑郁症状）和/或情绪调节是否会调节目睹社区暴力与攻击行为之间的关系。参与者为 180 名主要为非裔美国青少年（62%为女孩；平均年龄为 15.87 岁，标准差为 1.19 岁），来自美国一个城市社区的一所高中。大约 95%的青少年报告说在他们的一生中至少目睹过一次暴力行为，许多人多次目睹严重的社区暴力行为。结果表明，情绪调节加剧了目睹社区暴力与攻击行为之间的关联。焦虑症状的二次效应也调节了这种关联，即目睹社区暴力与低、高但不中度焦虑症状相关联，但与中度焦虑症状无关。相比之下，抑郁症状的二次效应与攻击行为有独特的关系，而与目睹社区暴力无关。文章回顾了未来研究的方向和实践的意义。
