RT Article
T1 The Roles of Family and Teacher Support in Moderating and Mediating Externalized and Internalized Outcomes of Exposure to Community Violence Among Arab and Jewish Adolescents in Israel
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 62
IS 14
SP 4465
OP 4488
A1 Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M.
A2 Leshem, Becky
A2 Guterman, Neil B.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1666129917
AB The study examined family and teacher support as factors that can protect adolescents from internalized and externalized problems after exposure to community violence (ECV). Self-administered questionnaires were filled out by a sample of 1,832 Arab and Jewish Israeli high school students. The Arab adolescents reported significantly higher levels of community violence victimization, internalized problems, externalized problems, family support, and teacher support than the Jewish adolescents. The girls reported higher levels of internalized problems, and the boys reported higher levels of externalized problems. ECV predicted high levels of internalized and externalized problems, family support predicted low levels of internalized and externalized problems, and teacher support had no predictive role. Path analysis confirmed the significance of the relationships between ECV effects, support variables, and gender. The limitations of the study and implications of the findings for future research and for the development of family care and family intervention programs are discussed.
K1 Exposure to community violence
K1 Arab youth
K1 Jewish youth
K1 Internalizing problems
K1 Externalizing problems
K1 Children in Israel
DO 10.1177/0306624X18759624