Correlates of Externalizing Behavior Symptoms Among Youth Within Two Impoverished,Urban Communities |
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| Authors: | Geetha Gopalan Mary A. Cavaleri William M. Bannon Mary M. McKay |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychiatry , Mount Sinai School of Medicine , New York, New York, USA geetha.gopalan@exchange.mssm.edu;3. New York State Psychiatric Institute , New York, New York, USA;4. Department of Psychiatry , Mount Sinai School of Medicine , New York, New York, USA |
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| Abstract: | This study examines whether risk factors associated with child externalizing behavior symptoms differ between two similar low-income, urban communities, using baseline parent data of 154 African American youth (ages 9–15) participating in the Collaborative HIV-Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project (CHAMP) family program. Separate multiple regression analyses of each city sample indicated that greater child externalizing symptoms were associated with increasing parenting hassles for New York families (n = 46), but greater parent mental health symptoms for participants in Chicago (n = 108). Understanding such distinctions between communities is an important first step toward tailoring services to unique community needs. |
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| Keywords: | child mental health externalizing behavior symptoms risk factors |
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