Walsh Colleen S, Sullivan Terri N, O'Connor Kelly E, Golden Chandler, Lazarus Kimberly
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Psychol Violence. 2025 May 15. doi: 10.1037/vio0000620.
Caregiver socialization is an important component of youth behavior development, yet little research has considered whether caregiver messages about use of fighting and nonviolent conflict resolution may be related to youths' beliefs about fighting and subsequent firearm carriage. This study examined the extent to which youths' beliefs about fighting moderated the relation between caregiver messages about how to manage conflict and youth firearm carrying.
Participants were 254 youth (ages 12-17; 56% female; 88% African American) drawn from a larger community-based study of positive youth development and youth violence prevention in a low-income urban area. Binary logistic regression analyses were conducted in SPSS. Covariates included age, sex, race, and intervention community.
Significant direct effects were produced between caregiver messages supporting fighting and nonviolence and youth firearm carrying, as were youth beliefs supporting reactive and instrumental aggression with firearm carrying. Though the interaction term was significant in the first two models, further examination of conditional probabilities indicated that youth beliefs were did not moderate the relations between caregiver messages and firearm carrying.
This study establishes preliminary relations between caregiver socialization messages and youth firearm carrying. Further longitudinal research is needed to understand caregiver-youth socialization and messages about how to manage conflict and reduce firearm behavior.
照顾者的社会化是青少年行为发展的一个重要组成部分，但很少有研究考虑照顾者关于打架及非暴力冲突解决方式的信息是否可能与青少年对打架的看法以及随后携带枪支有关。本研究考察了青少年对打架的看法在多大程度上调节了照顾者关于如何处理冲突的信息与青少年携带枪支之间的关系。
参与者为254名青少年（年龄在12至17岁之间；56%为女性；88%为非裔美国人），他们来自一项更大规模的基于社区的研究，该研究关注低收入城市地区青少年的积极发展和预防青少年暴力。在SPSS中进行二元逻辑回归分析。协变量包括年龄、性别、种族和干预社区。
照顾者支持打架和非暴力的信息与青少年携带枪支之间产生了显著的直接影响，青少年支持使用枪支进行反应性和工具性攻击的看法与携带枪支之间也存在显著直接影响。尽管在前两个模型中交互项显著，但对条件概率的进一步检验表明，青少年的看法并未调节照顾者信息与携带枪支之间的关系。
本研究建立了照顾者社会化信息与青少年携带枪支之间的初步关系。需要进一步开展纵向研究，以了解照顾者与青少年之间的社会化过程以及关于如何处理冲突和减少枪支相关行为的信息。
