Political Violence Exposure and Youth Aggression in the Context of the Social Ecological Systems and Family Stress Models: A 4-Wave Prospective Study of Israeli and Palestinian Youth.

ABSTRACT: Based on the social ecological systems framework and the family stress model, we examine a model in which the family's exposure to ethnic-political violence in the Middle East predicts negative family functioning, which in turn predicts subsequent harsh physical punishment toward one's children, and in turn, children's aggression by late adolescence/early adulthood. Beginning in 2007, we collected four waves of data from Israeli Jewish (N=451 at Wave 1) and Palestinian (N=600 at Wave 1) youths (three age cohorts: 8, 11, and 14 years old) and their parents. We found that exposure to ethnic-political violence increases harsh parenting and, subsequently, child aggression, via processes emanating from the family context (interparental aggression) in line with theorizing from the family stress

SUBMITTER: Dubow EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12530005 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature