ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2017
Violence exposure is associated with adolescents' same- and next-day mental health symptoms.
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- The added value of a micro-level ecological approach when mapping self-regulatory control processes and externalizing symptoms during adolescence: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
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- Measuring real-time violence exposure and its impact on intimate partner violence perpetration among adolescents.PloS one · 2025Article
- Pubertal timing moderates the same-day coupling between family hassles and negative affect in girls and boys.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Anger and Attention Problems as Mechanisms Linking Maltreatment Subtypes and Witnessed Violence to Social Functioning Among Children in Out-of-Home Care.Child maltreatment · 2022Article
- Listening in: An Alternative Method for Measuring the Family Emotional Environment.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- The role of self-regulatory control processes in understanding aggressive ideations and behaviors: An experience sampling method study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Harnessing Phones to Target Pediatric Populations with Socially Complex Needs: Systematic Review.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2020Review
- Annual Research Review: Ecological momentary assessment studies in child psychology and psychiatry.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2020Review
- A Review of Current Ambulatory Assessment Studies in Adolescent Samples and Practical Recommendations.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2019Review
- Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents with Elevated Externalizing Symptoms Show Heightened Emotion Reactivity to Daily Stress: An Experience Sampling Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2018Article
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backgroundYoung people exposed to violence are at increased risk for mental health and behavioral problems. However, very little is known about the immediate, or same-day, associations between violence exposure and adolescents' mental health symptoms or whether daily symptom or behavioral reactivity marks future problems.
methodsYoung adolescents were assessed three times a day for 30 consecutive days using mobile-phone-based Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) (N = 151 adolescents). Over 12,500 assessments and 4,329 person days were obtained via the EMA. Adolescents were recruited from low-income neighborhoods based on parent-reported risk for externalizing symptoms. Mental health symptoms were assessed via parent and child report at baseline, multiple times per day via EMA assessments of the adolescents, and again 18 months later when 93% of the adolescents were reinterviewed.
resultsResults from multilevel models illustrated that young adolescents were more likely to experience symptoms of anger (OR = 1.74, CI: 1.31-2.30), depression (OR = 1.66, CI: 1.26-2.19), and conduct problems (OR = 2.63, CI: 1.71-4.04) on days that they were exposed versus not exposed to violence. Increases in depressive symptoms were also observed on days following violence exposure (OR = 1.46, CI: 1.09-1.97). Adolescents with the highest levels of violence exposure across the 30-day EMA were less behaviorally reactive to violence exposures in daily life, and heightened behavioral reactivity predicted increased risk for substance use across early adolescence.
conclusionsFindings support the need to focus on both the immediate and long-term associations between violence exposure and adolescents' mental health and behavior. Results also suggest that heightened behavioral reactivity during early adolescence may signal emerging substance use problems.
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