Author:
LUTHAR SUNIYA S.,CUSHING GRETTA
Abstract
In this 2-year prospective study, psychopathology and competence among drug
abusers' offspring were examined in relation to characteristics of their neighborhoods. The
sample consisted of 77 children of cocaine and opioid addicts with a mean age of 12.3 years at
baseline and 14.2 years at follow-up. Outcomes examined included psychiatric diagnoses,
dimensional symptom indices, and aspects of everyday behavioral competence. Links involving
neighborhood variables varied by gender, wherein boys reflected greater deterioration than girls
when neighborhoods had high crime rates and high proportions of low-income households.
Conversely, girls appeared to benefit more than boys from the presence of professional adults in
the community. Overall, neighborhood indicators accounted for more variability in changes in
child adjustment over time than did indices of maternal psychopathology. Findings are discussed
in terms of developmental changes in the salience of exosystemic and familial forces, and
implications for interventions are outlined.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Developmental and Educational Psychology
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