Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives
Background: Many children and adolescents experience violent events which can be associated with negative consequences for their development, mental health, school, and social functioning. However, findings between settings and on the role of gender have been inconsistent. This study aimed to invest...
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crfrontiers:10.3389/fpubh.2021.692402 2024-06-23T07:50:59+00:00 Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives Koposov, Roman Isaksson, Johan Vermeiren, Robert Schwab-Stone, Mary Stickley, Andrew Ruchkin, Vladislav 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.692402 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.692402/full unknown Frontiers Media SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Frontiers in Public Health volume 9 ISSN 2296-2565 journal-article 2021 crfrontiers https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.692402 2024-06-11T04:06:43Z Background: Many children and adolescents experience violent events which can be associated with negative consequences for their development, mental health, school, and social functioning. However, findings between settings and on the role of gender have been inconsistent. This study aimed to investigate cross-country and gender differences in the relationship between community violence exposure (CVE) and school functioning in a sample of youths from three countries. Methods: A self-report survey was conducted among school students (12–17 years old) in Belgium (Antwerp, N = 4,743), Russia (Arkhangelsk, N = 2,823), and the US (New Haven, N = 4,101). Students were recruited from within classes that were randomly selected from within schools that had themselves been randomly selected (excepting New Haven, where all students were included). CVE was assessed with the Screening Survey of Exposure to Community Violence. School functioning was assessed with four measures: the Perceived Teacher Support scale, Negative Classroom Environment scale, and Academic Motivation and Perception of Safety at School scales. Multivariate Analyses of Covariance were performed to assess differences in the levels of school-related problem behaviors in boys and girls, who reported different degrees of CVE. Results: Participants in all three countries reported a relatively high prevalence of violence exposure (36.2% in Belgium, 39.3% in Russia and 45.2% in the US who witnessed violence), with a higher proportion of girls than boys witnessing violent events (varied from 37.4 to 51.6% between the countries), whereas boys reported more episodes of victimization by violence than girls (varied from 32.3 to 49.9% between the countries). Youths who experienced increased CVE (from no exposure to witnessing to victimization) reported an increase in all school functioning problems in all of the countries and this association was not gender-specific. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that regardless of differences in the level of CVE by country and ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arkhangelsk Frontiers (Publisher) Frontiers in Public Health 9 |
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Background: Many children and adolescents experience violent events which can be associated with negative consequences for their development, mental health, school, and social functioning. However, findings between settings and on the role of gender have been inconsistent. This study aimed to investigate cross-country and gender differences in the relationship between community violence exposure (CVE) and school functioning in a sample of youths from three countries. Methods: A self-report survey was conducted among school students (12–17 years old) in Belgium (Antwerp, N = 4,743), Russia (Arkhangelsk, N = 2,823), and the US (New Haven, N = 4,101). Students were recruited from within classes that were randomly selected from within schools that had themselves been randomly selected (excepting New Haven, where all students were included). CVE was assessed with the Screening Survey of Exposure to Community Violence. School functioning was assessed with four measures: the Perceived Teacher Support scale, Negative Classroom Environment scale, and Academic Motivation and Perception of Safety at School scales. Multivariate Analyses of Covariance were performed to assess differences in the levels of school-related problem behaviors in boys and girls, who reported different degrees of CVE. Results: Participants in all three countries reported a relatively high prevalence of violence exposure (36.2% in Belgium, 39.3% in Russia and 45.2% in the US who witnessed violence), with a higher proportion of girls than boys witnessing violent events (varied from 37.4 to 51.6% between the countries), whereas boys reported more episodes of victimization by violence than girls (varied from 32.3 to 49.9% between the countries). Youths who experienced increased CVE (from no exposure to witnessing to victimization) reported an increase in all school functioning problems in all of the countries and this association was not gender-specific. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that regardless of differences in the level of CVE by country and ... |
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Koposov, Roman Isaksson, Johan Vermeiren, Robert Schwab-Stone, Mary Stickley, Andrew Ruchkin, Vladislav Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives |
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Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives |
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Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives |
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Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives |
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Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives |
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Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives |
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community violence exposure and school functioning in youth: cross-country and gender perspectives |
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