TY - JOUR
T1 - Neighborhood danger, parental monitoring, harsh parenting, and child aggression in nine countries
AU - Skinner, Ann T.
AU - Bacchini, Dario
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Godwin, Jennifer W.
AU - Sorbring, Emma
AU - Tapanya, Sombat
AU - Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe
AU - Zelli, Arnaldo
AU - Alampay, Liane Peña
AU - Al-Hassan, Suha M.
AU - Bombi, Anna Silvia
AU - Bornstein, Marc H.
AU - Chang, Lei
AU - Deater-Deckard, Kirby
AU - Di Giunta, Laura
AU - Dodge, Kenneth A.
AU - Malone, Patrick S.
AU - Miranda, Maria Concetta
AU - Oburu, Paul
AU - Pastorelli, Concetta
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant RO1–HD054805, Fogarty International Center grant RO3–TW008141, and the intramural program of the NIH, NICHD.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - Exposure to neighborhood danger during childhood has negative effects that permeate multiple dimensions of childhood. The current study examined whether mothers’, fathers’, and children’s perceptions of neighborhood danger are related to child aggression, whether parental monitoring moderates this relation, and whether harsh parenting mediates this relation. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 1293 children (age M = 10.68, SD = 0.66; 51% girls) and their mothers (n = 1282) and fathers (n = 1075) in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). Perceptions of greater neighborhood danger were associated with more child aggression in all nine countries according to mothers’ and fathers’ reports and in five of the nine countries according to children’s reports. Parental monitoring did not moderate the relation between perception of neighborhood danger and child aggression. The mediating role of harsh parenting was inconsistent across countries and reporters. Implications for further research are discussed, and include examination of more specific aspects of parental monitoring as well as more objective measures of neighborhood danger.
AB - Exposure to neighborhood danger during childhood has negative effects that permeate multiple dimensions of childhood. The current study examined whether mothers’, fathers’, and children’s perceptions of neighborhood danger are related to child aggression, whether parental monitoring moderates this relation, and whether harsh parenting mediates this relation. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 1293 children (age M = 10.68, SD = 0.66; 51% girls) and their mothers (n = 1282) and fathers (n = 1075) in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). Perceptions of greater neighborhood danger were associated with more child aggression in all nine countries according to mothers’ and fathers’ reports and in five of the nine countries according to children’s reports. Parental monitoring did not moderate the relation between perception of neighborhood danger and child aggression. The mediating role of harsh parenting was inconsistent across countries and reporters. Implications for further research are discussed, and include examination of more specific aspects of parental monitoring as well as more objective measures of neighborhood danger.
KW - Child aggression
KW - Community violence
KW - Harsh parenting
KW - Neighborhood danger
KW - Parental monitoring
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U2 - 10.3390/soc4010045
DO - 10.3390/soc4010045
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84941206114
VL - 4
SP - 45
EP - 67
JO - Societies
JF - Societies
SN - 2075-4698
IS - 1
ER -