Social environment risk factors for violence, family context, and trajectories of social-emotional functioning among Latinx adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

High social-emotional functioning, including emotion regulation and nonviolent conflict resolution, constitute developmental competencies of adolescence that promote health and well-being. We used prospective longitudinal data from a predominantly Latinx population to understand how family context and social environment risk factors for violence related to patterns of social-emotional functioning during the transition between middle school and high school.

Methods

We prospectively interviewed 599 8th graders every 6 months for 2 years. We used trajectory models to explore longitudinal patterns of emotion regulation and nonviolent problem solving and multinomial regression to distinguish how these groups were associated with family context, partner and peer gang

SUBMITTER: Stoner MCD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9742140 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature