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WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF FAMILY

VIOLENCE ON SOCIAL WELL-BEING IN ADOLESCENTS?

Rehab Al GhamdiDr. Sperry

EPSY 621

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DID YOU KNOW? Millions of children are exposed to domestic

violence in their home (Carlson, 1984; Straus, 1992).

Millions of children classified as maltreated by parents and other caretakers (USDHHS, 2006).

Co-occurrence of violence domestic as well as otherwise with child abuse(Edleson, 2001; Tajima, 2004).

Links between domestic violence as well as child abuse with adverse psychosocial and behavioral outcomes (T. Herrenkohl, Sousa, Tajima, R. Herrenkohl, & Moylan, 2008; Sternberg, 2006; Wolfe, Crooks, Lee, McIntyre-Smith, & Jaffe, 2003).

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RESEARCH QUESTION

Does the exposure to violence and child abuse at an early age responsible for influencing the psychosocial outcomes in adolescence comprising their internalizing and externalizing behaviors.

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SUMMARY

The effects of child abuse and exposure to domestic violence on adolescent

internalizing and externalizing behavior problems.

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PURPOSE OF STUDY The examination of the impact of child

abuse and domestic violence exposure in childhood on their internalizing adolescent behavior resulting in psychological problems like anxiety and depressionas well as their externalizing behaviors manifested as delinquency and violence perpetration.

Moylan, C. A., Herrenkohl, T. I., Sousa, C., Tajima, E. A., Herrenkohl, R. C., & Russo, M. J. (2010). The effects of child abuse and exposure to domestic violence on adolescent internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Journal of family

Violence,

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RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS The study postulates that

exposure to violence will enhance the likelihood of child imbibing these outcomes, and

the risk is higher among the children who face child abuse along with domestic as compared to those who are exposed to only one type of abuse.

There is moderating effect of gender on the childhood exposure as well as the later outcomes in adolescence.

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DESIGN Lehigh Longitudinal Study Descriptive research design using three time

assessment process with well structured interviews individually face-to-face administered questionnaires adolescent youth survey comprising 457 youth information was captured on variables like parenting

practices, youth behaviour, youth psychological functioning, and youth school experiences

To cross check the reliability of information and to lessen the potential measurement bias data was procured from three sources including official records; reports provided by mothers and the retrospective reports by adolescents were used in the study.

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METHODS Participants

The participants in the study included youth and parents(for the preschool and school-age children)

Instrument for data collectionThe study used well validated scales like

the items from the Achenbach Youth Self Report (YSR) (Achenbach 1991) in a structured assessment form

Data collection techniquesFace to face interviews

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DATA ANALYSIS Data analysis techniques

Regression models andstructural modelling program(SEM)using the

MPlus

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FINDINGS The findings related to first hypothesis

about the impact of violence exposure on internalizing and externalizing behaviour indicate exposure to be predictive for some outcomes and the gender was also predictive for certain outcomes.

The study confirmed the complexity of the relationship between violence exposure and later adolescent outcomes as results were not statistically significant.

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CONCLUSIONS Though the findings indicated that the

exposure to domestic violence and child abuse at an early age impact certain type of internalizing and externalizing outcomes in adolescence but it failed to confirm if the dual exposure was more severe than the individual. Further the moderating effect of gender on this relationship was also observed.

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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE The theoretical perspective of the

author on the issue to extend the realms of cognitive-development by gaining a knowledge that how the exposures in early life influence the outcomes at later stage.

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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE To verify the severity of double whammy

effect (Herrenkohl et al., 2008; Hughes, Parkinson, & Vargo, 1989) and to to measure the developmental changes in the target group the study makes use of longitudinal research.

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SUMMARYProspective effects of violence exposure

across multiple contexts on early adolescents’ internalizing and

externalizing problems.

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PURPOSE OF STUDY To examine the impact of cross-

contextual (in community, home or school )exposures on children by evaluating the effects of witnessing violence and victimization both individual as well as interactive on the adolescent’s internalizing and externalizing issues.

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RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS The study postulated violence exposure in home and school is more

detrimental in cultivating the adjustment problems as compared to

community violence violence exposure in the community have an

attenuating impact on violence exposure at home and school

Victimization has direct strong association with adjustment issues in comparison to exposure to violence and therefore the application of cross-context attenuation is more apt in witnessing

Violence rather than victimisation.

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DESIGN Longitudinal study of two assessments

at a lag of 16 months Two-stage probability sampling process

with random selection of schools followed by inviting the participants from the selected schools

The study is correlational trying to deduce the impact of witnessing violence and victimization on the behavior of adolescents.

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METHODS The Birmingham Youth Violence Study (BYVS) was conducted between 2003

and 2005. Sample survey comprising 603 boys and

girls from . 5th grade classrooms in 17 schools of the area

Sample was constituted by 78% African Americans and 20% Caucasians

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METHODS(CONTD.) Use of standardized scales for

measurement of variables like Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS;Reynolds & Richmond, 1997), Major Depressive Disorder scale of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children

Predictive Scales (DPS; Lucas et al., 2001), Hopelessness Scale for Children (Kazdin, Rodgers,& Colbus, 1986) etc. to ensure the validity and relaiability of study findings.

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DATA ANALYSIS Multiple regressions Initial levels of internalizing and

externalizing problems and demographics were the control factors in the study.

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FINDINGS The study concluded that Witnessing violence at

school and home was a predictor for anxiety and depression while witnessing community violence was a predictor for delinquency.

Similarly for the victimization, the impact of victimization at home was associated with anxiety, depression, and aggression while victimization at school related with anxiety only and the association of victimization in the community with any outcomes could not be ascertained from the study.

The study suggested that the impact of witnessing violence at home was more on the outcomes like anxiety, delinquency and aggression in absence of exposure to community violence.

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CONCLUSIONS Violence exposure at home and school

on internalizing and externalizing outcomes was confirmed by the study and the witnessing of community violence is found to have an attenuating this effect.

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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE The theoretical perspective of the

author on the issue to extend the realms of cognitive-development by gaining a knowledge that how the exposures in early life influence the outcomes at later stage in the multiple contexts of community, school and home.

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THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE The study makes use of longitudinal

research to measure the developmental changes in the target group.

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FINDINGS FROM SIMILAR RESEARCH STUDIES A meta-analytic review of the video-game

research literature including various types of research settings like experimental and non-experimental studies, in laboratory and field settings, with males and females and explores the role of exposure to violent video games in influencing aggressive behavior concluded that exposure to violent video games increases physiological arousal, cardiovascular arousal, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect and aggression-related thoughts and feelings whereas it has an adverse effect on pro-social behavior and helping behavior (Anderson , Bushman).

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FINDINGS FROM SIMILAR RESEARCH STUDIES Another study exhibits that effect of violent video

games on aggression is positively associated with type of game violence and negatively related to time spent playing the games(Sherry). Carnagey and Anderson in their study employed three experiments for examining the effects of rewarding and punishing violent actions in video games on the aggression-related variables by using an experimental research design and concluded that rewarding violent game actions increased aggressive thinking, aggressive behavior as well as hostile emotion where as the punishing violent actions increased hostile emotion and did not increase aggressive thinking or aggressive behavior. Therefore it can be drawn as an inference that games that reward violent actions can increase aggressive behavior by increasing aggressive thinking.

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FINDINGS FROM SIMILAR RESEARCH STUDIES Study by Anderson and Dill revealed a positive

association between violent video game play with aggressive behavior and delinquency and negative association between academic achievement and overall amount of time spent playing video games. It was further concluded that these associations were stronger for aggressive and male individuals. The study by Bartholow and Anderson examining the effect of playing a violent video game on aggression in a laboratory setting using an experimental research design and measuring aggression in terms of the punishment levels set by participants for their opponents confirmed the hypothesis that playing the violent game would result in more aggression rather than playing of the nonviolent game and the larger interaction effect between game and sex for men.

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TAKE HOME MESSAGE In the light of the evidences presented

by the two studies by Moylan et al.(2010) and Mrug & Windle it can be safely concluded that the exposure to violence(domestic or otherwise) as well as the child abuse at the tender age are responsible for shaping the behavior of the adolescents reflected in their internalizing behaviors like anxiety, depression as well as their externalizing behaviors like delinquency.

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THANK YOU

REFERENCES

REFERENCES Moylan, C. A., Herrenkohl, T. I., Sousa, C.,

Tajima, E. A., Herrenkohl, R. C., & Russo, M. J. (2010). The effects of child abuse and exposure to domestic violence on adolescent internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Journal of family Violence, 25(1), 53-63.

Mrug, S., & Windle, M. (2010). Prospective effects of violence exposure across multiple contexts on early adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problems. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 51(8), 953-961.

OTHER REFERENCES Chan, K. L., Brownridge, D. A., Yan, E., Fong, D. Y., & Tiwari, A. (2011).

Child maltreatment polyvictimization: Rates and short-term effects on adjustment in a representative Hong Kong sample. Psychology of violence, 1(1), 4.

 Lepistö, S., Luukkaala, T., & Paavilainen, E. (2011). Witnessing and experiencing domestic violence: a descriptive study of adolescents. Scandinavian journal of caring sciences, 25(1), 70-80.

Lepistö, S., Åstedt‐Kurki, P., Joronen, K., Luukkaala, T., & Paavilainen, E. (2010). Adolescents’ experiences of coping with domestic violence. Journal of advanced nursing, 66(6), 1232-1245.

Margolin, G., & Vickerman, K. A. (2011). Posttraumatic stress in children and adolescents exposed to family violence: I. Overview and issues.

Quinn, A., Briggs, H. E., Miller, K. M., & Orellana, E. R. (2014). Social and familial determinants of health: Mediating effects of caregiver mental and physical health on children's mental health. Children and Youth Services Review, 36, 163-169.

Smith, D. E., & Moore, T. M. (2013). Family Violence and Aggression and Their Associations With Psychosocial Functioning in Jamaican Adolescents. Journal of Family Issues, 34(6), 745-767.

OTHER REFERENCES Anderson, C. A., & Dill, K. E. (2000). Video games and

aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior in the laboratory and in life. Journal of personality and social psychology, 78(4), 772.

Anderson, C. A., Carnagey, N. L., Flanagan, M., Benjamin, A. J., Eubanks, J., & Valentine, J. C. (2004). Violent video games: Specific effects of violent content on aggressive thoughts and behavior. Advances in experimental social psychology, 36, 200-251.

Anderson, C. A. (2004). An update on the effects of playing violent video games. Journal of adolescence, 27(1), 113-122.

Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2001). Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, physiological arousal, and prosocial behavior: A meta-analytic review of the scientific literature. Psychological science, 12(5), 353-359.

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