ArticlePediatrics2019
Parental Disengagement in Childhood and Adolescent Male Gun Carrying.
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- Adapting to the Disconnection: An Examination of School Alienation and Adolescent Gun Carrying.The Journal of school health · 2026Article
- Perceptions of neighborhood disorder and gun carrying during adolescence: The indirect effect of exposure to violence.Preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Gunshot Abdominal Injuries: A Report of Two Cases and a Review of the Literature.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
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- Firearm-related research articles in health sciences by funding status and type: A scoping review.Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- A Within-Individual Examination of the Predictors of Gun Carrying During Adolescence and Young Adulthood Among Young Men.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2021Article
- Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Youth Firearm Access, Possession or Carrying.American journal of criminal justice : AJCJ · 2020Article
- Youth exposure to violence involving a gun: evidence for adverse childhood experience classification.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Article
- Addressing Key Gaps in Existing Longitudinal Research and Establishing a Pathway Forward for Firearm Violence Prevention Research.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
- Special Section Introduction: Revitalizing Developmental Research on Adolescent Gun Involvement.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
- Risk and Protective Factors for Gun Violence in Male Juvenile Offenders.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine the association between parental disengagement in childhood and adolescent gun carrying and determine whether this association is accounted for by externalizing problems and affiliation with delinquent peers during early adolescence.
methodsThe sample included 503 boys (55.7% African American, 40.6% white, 3.7% other) recruited from first-grade classrooms in Pittsburgh public schools. Multi-informant assessments were conducted regularly (semiannually then annually) from approximately ages 7.5 to 20 years. Latent factors were constructed by using parent-reported parental disengagement (ie, poor parental involvement, poor parent-son communication, poor parent-son relationship quality) collected from ages 7.5 to 10 years, youth-reported peer delinquency from ages 10.5 to 13 years, and teacher-reported externalizing problems from ages 10.5 to 13 years. The outcome was youth-reported gun carrying from ages 14 to 20 years.
resultsTwenty percent of individuals sampled reported carrying a gun during adolescence. Childhood parental disengagement was significantly associated with adolescent gun carrying (β = .22; 95% confidence interval: 0.08 to 0.36). Furthermore, the association between parental disengagement and gun carrying was partially mediated through peer delinquency and externalizing problems during early adolescence. The 2 indirect paths accounted for ∼29% of the total effect of parental disengagement.
conclusionsBoys exposed to poorer parental engagement during childhood are more likely to affiliate with delinquent peers and exhibit externalizing problems during early adolescence, which (in turn) increases their risk of carrying a firearm in later adolescence. This suggests that gun violence prevention efforts with children should work to enhance aspects of parental engagement.
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