The Relative Influence of Family and Neighborhood Factors on Child Maltreatment at Critical Stages of Child Development
This study examines the impact of family and neighborhood factors on physical and psychological abuse across three developmental stages of children: early childhood (age 3), young school age (age 5), and middle childhood (age 9). Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870345/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35204884 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9020163 |
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author | Maguire-Jack, Kathryn Yoon, Susan Chang, Yujeong Hong, Sunghyun |
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description | This study examines the impact of family and neighborhood factors on physical and psychological abuse across three developmental stages of children: early childhood (age 3), young school age (age 5), and middle childhood (age 9). Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal national cohort study of children from 20 urban U.S. cities, are used. Path analysis is employed to investigate the longitudinal relationships between family and neighborhood context variables and abuse risk, as well as the importance of different factors at key developmental stages. Economic hardship, maternal substance use, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence are found to be related to child abuse risk regardless of developmental stage, while maternal depression and neighborhood informal social control are found to have impacts only within certain child development stages. Findings suggest the need for early intervention and prevention strategies that specifically target economic hardship, poverty, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence. |
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spelling | pubmed-88703452022-02-25 The Relative Influence of Family and Neighborhood Factors on Child Maltreatment at Critical Stages of Child Development Maguire-Jack, Kathryn Yoon, Susan Chang, Yujeong Hong, Sunghyun Children (Basel) Article This study examines the impact of family and neighborhood factors on physical and psychological abuse across three developmental stages of children: early childhood (age 3), young school age (age 5), and middle childhood (age 9). Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal national cohort study of children from 20 urban U.S. cities, are used. Path analysis is employed to investigate the longitudinal relationships between family and neighborhood context variables and abuse risk, as well as the importance of different factors at key developmental stages. Economic hardship, maternal substance use, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence are found to be related to child abuse risk regardless of developmental stage, while maternal depression and neighborhood informal social control are found to have impacts only within certain child development stages. Findings suggest the need for early intervention and prevention strategies that specifically target economic hardship, poverty, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence. MDPI 2022-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8870345/ /pubmed/35204884 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9020163 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Maguire-Jack, Kathryn Yoon, Susan Chang, Yujeong Hong, Sunghyun The Relative Influence of Family and Neighborhood Factors on Child Maltreatment at Critical Stages of Child Development |
title | The Relative Influence of Family and Neighborhood Factors on Child Maltreatment at Critical Stages of Child Development |
title_full | The Relative Influence of Family and Neighborhood Factors on Child Maltreatment at Critical Stages of Child Development |
title_fullStr | The Relative Influence of Family and Neighborhood Factors on Child Maltreatment at Critical Stages of Child Development |
title_full_unstemmed | The Relative Influence of Family and Neighborhood Factors on Child Maltreatment at Critical Stages of Child Development |
title_short | The Relative Influence of Family and Neighborhood Factors on Child Maltreatment at Critical Stages of Child Development |
title_sort | relative influence of family and neighborhood factors on child maltreatment at critical stages of child development |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870345/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35204884 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9020163 |
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