Does Expositor Help Community Violence Lead Mental Health...

The research question is does expositor to community violence lead to mental health problems in adolescences? This question it being tested based on the adolescence’s ethnicity, gender, and level of education. This was clearly stated in the beginning pages of the article. The independent variable is how much exposure each of the adolescences had to violence while in high school. The dependent variable is the amount of psychological distress experienced by the adolescent. The controlled variables are the participators’ ethnicity, gender, age, and level of education of the adolescences. The relevant variables are clearly defined, because the article specifies where these adolescences grew up, they were all from New York City. The type of violence that the adolescent had witnessed is also clearly stated: â€Å"it includes the degree to which an individual has been chased, threatened, slapped, mugged, stabbed, shot, or had something taken from him or her by force or threat, as well as the degree to which the respondent directly observed another individual being chased, arrested, threatened, mugged, slapped, wounded, stabbed, shot or killed, or observed someone with a gun or saw someone dead; and the respondent was asked to report his or her level of exposure during the past 3 years† (Wilson, 2007, p.99). It is clearly laid out what is considered to be a type of community violence. The last part of the study and most important the dependent variables was also clearly defined: â€Å"a