Citation

Ng‐Mak DS, Stueve A, Salzinger S, Feldman RS. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2002; 72(1): 92-101.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

10.1037/0002-9432.72.1.92

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A causal model is formulated for the thesis that in inner-city youth exposed to high levels of violence, cognitions that normalize violence mitigate affective effects of exposure while increasing risk for violent behavior, thus perpetuating violence in the very process of adapting to it psychologically. Gender differences in the cognitive normalization of violence may explain gender differences in affective and behavioral effects of exposure. Empirical studies are needed to directly test this model.