@article{ref1,
title="Neighborhood crime and self-care: risks for aggression and lower academic performance",
journal="Developmental psychology",
year="2007",
author="Lord, Heather and Mahoney, Joseph L.",
volume="43",
number="6",
pages="1321-1333",
abstract="This longitudinal study evaluated associations among official rates of neighborhood crime, academic performance, and aggression in a sample of 581 children in 1st-3rd grade (6.3-10.6 years old). It was hypothesized that the influence of crime depends on children's unsupervised exposure to the neighborhood context through self-care. Average weekly hours in self-care were trichotomized into low (0-3), moderate (4-9), and high (10-15). Moderate and high amounts of self-care were linked to increased aggression and decreased academic performance for children from high-crime areas (11,230 crimes per 100,000 persons) but not average-crime areas, when the authors controlled for neighborhood, family, and child covariates. In high-crime areas, academic outcomes were more favorable when self-care occurred in combination with after-school program participation.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0012-1649",
doi="10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1321",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1321"
}