Article Summary
Goldner, J., Peters, T. L., Richards, M. H., & Pearce, S. (2011).
Exposure to community violence and protective and risky contexts among low income urban African American Adolescents Journal of Youth and Aodlescence , 40(2), 174-186. doi: 10.1007/s10964-010-9527-4
The authors of this study identified and researched several factors thought to encourage risky exposure to violence, as well as some potential protective factors that can diminish such exposure. The goal of the study was to lay foundations for further research on prevention and intervention programs addressing the issues of youth exposed to violence in urban communities with inadequate resources. Both risk and protective factors were analyzed cross-sectionally and longitudinally for each gender using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) through in vivo data methodology. The authors collected data from a sample of 233 African Americans from low-income urban Chicago public schools in high-crime neighborhoods. The participants were followed for 3 years beginning in sixth grade. They were asked to record their locations as well as their companionship throughout the assigned 3-year time period using the ESM methodology. The authors concluded from the gathered data that both companionship and location significantly affected the subjects’ risk as well as their protection from exposure to violence. Such conclusions are relative to the gender and age of the subjects to which they are applied.
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