Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (2): 228-239.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.02.12

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Exposure to Community Violence and Externalizing Problem Behavior among Adolescents:A Moderated Mediation Model

ZHANG Yibo1, ZHANG Wei1, ZHU Jianjun1, YU Chengfu2, CHEN Yuanyuan1, LU Zhenhui1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology/Center for studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631;
    2. School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006
  • Online:2017-03-15 Published:2017-03-15

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Abstract: This study constructed a moderated mediation model to investigate the relationship between exposure to community violence (ECV) and externalizing problem behavior,and was to explore the mediating effect of deviant peer affiliation as well as the moderating effect of father-child/mother-child relationship.With stratified-cluster sampling method,1401 middle school students completed questionnaire measures of exposure to community violence,deviant peer affiliationt,parent-child relationship and externalizing problem behavior.Results were as follows:(1) ECV could positively predict externalizing problem behavior.(2) ECV influenced adolescents'externalizing problem behavior directly and indirectly through deviant peer affiliation.(3) father-child/mother-child relationship moderated the mediated path.Moreover,mother-child relationship moderated the relationship between ECV and deviant peer affiliation,while father-child relationship moderated the relationship between deviant peer affiliation and adolescents'externalizing problem behavior.

Key words: exposure to community violence, externalizing problem behavior, deviant peer affiliation, father-child relationship, mother-child relationship, middle school student

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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