This study examines (a) the degree of agreement between mother-reported child community violence exposure and children’s self-reports and whether agreement changes over time; (b) whether child gender is associated with mother-child agreement; and (c) whether greater mother-child agreement is concurrently and longitudinally associated with children’s psychological well-being. We conducted secondary data analyses using longitudinal data with a socioeconomically diverse sample of 287 Latino adolescents (M_ageW2 = 11.2, 47% girls) and their mothers (M_ageW1 = 35.3) from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Mother-child agreement about nonexposure to violence was high. However, for violence-exposed children, mothers overestimated exposure in early adolescence and underestimated it in middle adolescence. Mothers had higher violence agreement scores with daughters than with sons. Greater mother-child agreement about witnessing community violence in early adolescence was associated with lower externalizing problems in early and middle adolescence. Agreement about children’s victimization was only concurrently associated with lower externalizing and internalizing behaviors in early adolescence. Developmental changes in adolescent disclosure and parental knowledge of children’s community violence may provide an important point of intervention for addressing the psychological sequelae of violence exposure in early adolescence.

这项研究检查（a）母亲报告的儿童社区暴力暴露与儿童的自我报告之间的协议程度，以及协议是否随时间变化；（二）子女的性别是否与母子协议有关；（c）更大程度的母子协议是否与儿童的心理健康同时和纵向相关。我们使用纵向数据对287名拉丁裔青少年（M _ageW2 = _11.2，47％的女孩）及其母亲（M _ageW1）的社会经济差异样本进行了二次数据分析。= 35.3），来自芝加哥社区的人类发展项目。关于不遭受暴力侵害的母​​子协议很高。但是，对于受暴力侵害的儿童，母亲高估了青春期初期的暴露程度，而低估了中旬时期的暴露程度。母亲与女儿的暴力协议得分高于儿子。关于在青少年早期目击社区暴力的更大的母子协议与较低的早期和中期青少年外在化问题相关。关于儿童受害的共识仅与青少年早期较低的外在化和内化行为相关。