The relationship between cumulative risk and promotive factors and violent behavior among urban adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Resiliency theory posits that some youth exposed to risk factors do not develop negative behaviors due to the influence of promotive factors. This study examines the effects of cumulative risk and promotive factors on adolescent violent behavior and tests two models of resilience-the compensatory model and the protective model-in a sample of adolescent patients (14-18 years old; n = 726) presenting to an urban emergency department who report violent behavior. Cumulative measures of risk and promotive factors consist of individual characteristics and peer, family, and community influences. Hierarchical multiple regression was used to test the two models of resilience (using cumulative measures of risk and promotive factors) for violent behavior within a sample of youth reporting violent beh

SUBMITTER: Stoddard SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3684171 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature