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Does Parental Monitoring Moderate the Impact of Community Violence Exposure on Probation Youth’s Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behavior?

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The present study examined whether parental monitoring buffers the negative effects of communtity violence exposure on probation youth’s substance use and sexual risk behaviors. Among a sample of 347 Chicago youth on probation, ages 13–17 years, parental monitoring did not moderate the relationship between community violence exposure and probation youth’s sexual risk and substance use. However, parental monitoring was independently associated with less engagement in sexual risk and substance use, and community violence exposure was independently associated with more risk behavior among probation youth. The present study contributes to the growing literature on the impact of community violence exposure and parenting on adjudicated youth risk.

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Funding

This study was funded by a research grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD005861).

Author Contributions

W.U.: conceptualized the present study, assisted with the data analyses, and wrote the paper. A.H.: analyzed the data and drafted the results sections and tables, and assisted with drafting the methods and discussion, and collaborated in the reviewing and editing of the final manuscript. G.D.: designed and executed the larger intervention study, collaborated with the design and drafting of the introduction and discussion sections, and collaborated in the reviewing and editing of the final manuscript. E.E.: collaborated with the design and implementation of the study, helped draft the methods section, and collaborated in the reviewing and editing of the final manuscript.

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  1. School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Community Psychology, University of Washington Bothell, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA, 98011-8246, USA

    Wadiya Udell

  2. School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Anna L. Hotton, Erin Emerson & Geri R. Donenberg

  3. Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Geri R. Donenberg

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Dr. Geri Donenberg has received a research grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD005861) to fund this research. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Udell, W., Hotton, A.L., Emerson, E. et al. Does Parental Monitoring Moderate the Impact of Community Violence Exposure on Probation Youth’s Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behavior?. J Child Fam Stud 26, 2556–2563 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0769-6

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