Longitudinal Relations Between Trauma-Related Psychological Distress and Physical Aggression Among Urban Early Adolescents

Thompson, Erin L.; Farrell, Albert D.

doi:10.1002/jclp.22781

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Longitudinal Relations Between Trauma-Related Psychological Distress and Physical Aggression Among Urban Early Adolescents

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9 2019
By Thompson, Erin L. ; Farrell, Albert D.

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J Clin Psychol
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Thompson, Erin L. ; Farrell, Albert D.
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There is convincing evidence that trauma-related psychological distress and aggressive behavior are highly related among adolescents. The evidence is less clear regarding the direction of this relation.|The purpose of this study was to examine reciprocal longitudinal relations between trauma-related distress and physical aggression.|A predominantly African American sample of early adolescents (N = 2,271; mean age = 12.9) living in an urban, under-resourced community participated in this investigation. The current study used autoregressive cross-lagged models to examine changes across four waves of data within each grade of middle school.|Support was found for trauma-related distress uniquely predicting increased levels of physical aggression. This effect was consistent across gender and within and across middle school grades. Conversely, physical aggression did not predict changes in trauma-related distress.|Violence prevention efforts should routinely screen for trauma-related distress.
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Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Aggression Black Or African American Child Female Humans Longitudinal Studies Male Psychological Distress Psychological Trauma Urban Population
Source:

J Clin Psychol. 75(9):1626-1642
Pubmed ID:

30995349
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC9387343
Document Type:

Journal Article
Funding:

R01 HD089994/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CE001956/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; 5U01CE001956/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; 2014-CK-BX-0009/National Institute of JusticeInternational/
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75
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9
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CDC Public Access
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