Exposure to Neighborhood Violence and Child-Parent Conflict among a Longitudinal Sample of Dutch Adolescents

Jaap Nieuwenhuis (), Matt Best, Matt Vogel (), Maarten van Ham, Susan Branje () and Wim Meeus ()
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Jaap Nieuwenhuis: Zhejiang University
Matt Best: University of Colorado Denver
Matt Vogel: University at Albany
Susan Branje: Utrecht University
Wim Meeus: Utrecht University

No 14587, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: An extensive body of research has documented the deleterious effects of community violence on adolescent development and behavior. Much of this research focuses on how exposure violence structures social interaction, and, ultimately, how it motivates youth to engage in troublesome behavior. This study builds upon this body of research to demonstrate how exposure to community violence strains relationships between adolescents and their caregivers, resulting in higher levels of interpersonal conflict. Drawing on five waves of longitudinal panel data (n=778; observations=3,458; 55% female), combined with police records of violent crime in Utrecht, the Netherlands, a hybrid tobit regression documents how exposure to local and nearby violence affects child-parent conflict. The results indicate that youth who experience high levels of neighborhood violence report higher levels of conflict with parents than youth with low exposure to neighborhood violence. These results are consistent across different levels of neighborhood aggregation.

Keywords: community violence; child-parent conflict; adolescent development; longitudinal panel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2021-07
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Published - published in: Cities, 2023, 136, 104258

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