Internalizing, externalizing, and posttraumatic stress symptoms do not mediate the association between community violence exposure and GPA¶

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q3 i? None of the three symptom types was significantly associated with GPA, so none met criteria for mediating the violence-to-GPA relationship. → Borofsky Larissa A. 2013

Evidence¶

Borofsky Larissa A. 2013¶

Borofsky Larissa A., Kellerman Ilana, Baucom Brian, Oliver Pamella H., Margolin Gayla. (2013). Community Violence Exposure and Adolescents' School Engagement and Academic Achievement Over Time. Psychology of Violence. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034121

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Hierarchical multiple regression with the GPA subsample (n = 96) testing internalizing, externalizing, and posttraumatic stress symptoms as mediators of time 1 community violence predicting time 2 GPA; no symptom variable reached significance.

"None of the psychological symptom variables was found to mediate the relationship between community violence and GPA as neither externalizing, β = −.15, t(95) = −1.51, p = .14, internalizing, β = .01, t(95) = .10, p = .93, nor posttraumatic stress symptoms, β = .12, t(95) = 1.20, p = .23, was significantly associated with GPA."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Externalizing and internalizing symptoms, but not posttraumatic stress symptoms, mediate the association between community violence exposure and later school engagement — related
• School engagement partially mediates the association between earlier community violence exposure and later cumulative GPA — related
• Earlier community violence exposure inversely predicts later school engagement, but earlier school engagement does not predict later community violence exposure — related