ERIC Number: EJ779928
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Nov
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
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Neighborhood Crime and Self-Care: Risks for Aggression and Lower Academic Performance
Lord, Heather; Mahoney, Joseph L.
Developmental Psychology, v43 n6 p1321-1333 Nov 2007
This longitudinal study evaluated associations among official rates of neighborhood crime, academic performance, and aggression in a sample of 581 children in 1st-3rd grade (6.3-10.6 years old). It was hypothesized that the influence of crime depends on children's unsupervised exposure to the neighborhood context through self-care. Average weekly hours in self-care were trichotomized into low (0-3), moderate (4-9), and high (10-15). Moderate and high amounts of self-care were linked to increased aggression and decreased academic performance for children from high-crime areas (11,230 crimes per 100,000 persons) but not average-crime areas, when the authors controlled for neighborhood, family, and child covariates. In high-crime areas, academic outcomes were more favorable when self-care occurred in combination with after-school program participation.
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, School Activities, Crime, Low Achievement, After School Programs, Grade 3, Aggression, Grade 2, Grade 1, Student Participation, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Latchkey Children
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 1; Grade 2; Grade 3
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
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