An ecological perspective on the role of nondisclosure in urban african american adolescents exposed to community violence: Using mediation and moderated mediation approaches

The present study examines Community Exposure to Violence, Nondisclosure, Parent- Child Attachment, and Social Support, as potential risk and protective factors in a school-based sample of urban African American adolescents. This study also presents an ecological perspective on the role of Nondisclosure in urban African American early adolescents. The Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) examines a child’s development within the context of systems of relationships that form his or her environment, such as the microsystem (i.e., a system in which the adolescent has direct contact). Particularly, this study tested conceptual models in which adolescents’ nondisclosure to adults (a microsystem occuring at the interpersonal level between adolescents and parents and/or adults) mediates the relation between Community Exposure to Violence (an exosystem system occuring at the environmental level) and psychological symptoms. In addition, moderated mediation analyses were conducted, to determine if the following microsystems, Parent-Child Attachment, and Social Support (from extended kinship and/or non-kinship adults in the neighborhood) are potential protective factors, which are expected to attenuate Nondisclosure mediating the relation between Community Exposure to Violence and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2009

Author dc:creator

• Mathies Dinizulu, Sonya Jane

• urban environments
• African American teens
• ecological perspectives
• microsystems
• Community Exposure to Violence
• Nondisclosure
• Parent- Child Attachment
• Social Support

Repository record dc:identifier

https://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/4

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:via.library.depaul.edu:etd-1004