Neighborhood Danger, Parental Monitoring, Harsh Parenting, and Child Aggression in Nine Countries

Societies

Ann T. Skinner³  Dario Bacchini¹³  Jennifer E. Lansford³  Jennifer W. Godwin³  Emma Sorbring¹¹  Sombat Tapanya¹⁴  Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado¹²  Arnaldo Zelli²  Liane Pe༚ Alampay⁴  Suha M. Al-Hassan⁸  Anna Silvia Bombi¹⁰  Marc H. Bornstein^3,5  Lei Chang^3,7  Kirby Deater-Deckard^1,3  Laura Di Giunta^3,9  Kenneth A. Dodge³  Patrick S. Malone^3,15  Maria Concetta Miranda¹³  Paul Oburu^3,6 

[1] Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA; E-Mail:;Department of Education Sciences, Foro Italico University of Rome, 00135 Rome, Italy; E-Mail:;Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; E-Mails:;Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City 1108, Philippines; E-Mail:;Child and Family Research Program in Developmental Neuroscience, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; E-Mail:;Department of Education Psychology, Maseno University, Maseno Kenya; E-Mail:;Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong; E-Mail:;Queen Rania Faculty for Childhood, The Hashemite University, Zarqa 13115, Jordan; E-Mail:;Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; E-Mails:;Department of Social and Devlopmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; E-Mail:;Department of Psychology, University West, 46186 Trollhättan, Sweden; E-Mail:;Consultorio Psicológico Popular, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Carrera 56C No. 51-90, Medellín, Colombia; E-Mail:;Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, 81100 Caserta, Italy; E-Mails:;Department of Psychiatry, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand; E-Mail:;Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Colombia, SC 29208, USA; E-Mail:

关键词: child aggression;    community violence;    harsh parenting;    parental monitoring;    neighborhood danger;   

DOI  :  10.3390/soc4010045

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

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.

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