Childhood physical abuse, early social support, and risk for maltreatment: current social support as a mediator of risk for child physical abuse
Childhood physical abuse, early social support, and risk for maltreatment: current social support as a mediator of risk for child physical abuse
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DOI：
10.1016/s0145-2134(00)00230-1
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发表时间：
2001-01-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Thomsen, C
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作者：
Crouch, JL;Milner, JS;Thomsen, C
目的：这项研究调查了成年后对社会支持的看法是否部分介导了童年经历（即，收到的身体虐待和早期社会支持的水平）和成人儿童身体abuse.Method的风险：参与者包括598一般人群成年人完成自我报告的措施，旨在评估儿童身体虐待，早期和当前的社会支持的看法，儿童身体虐待的危险因素。结构方程模型被用来测试和交叉验证一个模型，该模型包括儿童身体虐待和早期社会支持对儿童身体虐待风险的直接影响，以及通过对成人社会支持感知的影响而产生的中介影响。儿童期身体虐待和早期社会支持共变，因此，身体虐待的接受与较低水平的感知早期社会支持相关，早期支持，而不是儿童身体虐待，有间接影响（即，通过目前的支持）对儿童身体虐待的风险。更具体地说，早期支持的水平直接关系到成人的支持观念，和成人的支持观念与儿童身体虐待的风险呈负相关。儿童身体虐待是直接相关的儿童身体虐待risk.Conclusions：低水平的早期支持可能会影响儿童身体虐待的风险，通过影响他人的看法，在成年后的支持。然而，在童年时期受到身体虐待似乎不会影响成年后对支持的看法。需要进行研究，以确定可能解释儿童期遭受身体虐待与儿童成年期遭受身体虐待风险增加之间联系的其他因素。(C)2001爱思唯尔科技有限公司版权所有。
Objective: The study investigated whether perceptions of social support in adulthood partially mediated the associations between childhood experiences (i.e., receipt of physical abuse and levels of early social support) and adult risk for child physical abuse.Method: Participants included 598 general population adults who completed self-report measures designed to assess childhood physical abuse, perceptions of early and current social support, and risk factors for child physical abuse. Structural equation modeling was used to lest and cross validate a model that included the direct effects of child physical abuse and early social support on child physical abuse risk, as well as mediated effects through an influence on adult perceptions of social support.Results: Childhood physical abuse and early social support covaried, such that receipt of physical abuse was associated with lower levels of perceived early social support, Early support, hut not child physical abuse, had an indirect effect (i.e., through current support) on child physical abuse risk. More specifically, levels of early support were directly related to adult perceptions of support, and adult perceptions of support were inversely associated with child physical abuse risk. Childhood physical abuse was directly related to child physical abuse risk.Conclusions: Low levels of early support may impact risk for child physical abuse by affecting perceptions of others as supportive in adulthood. The receipt of physical abuse in childhood, however, does not appear to impact perceptions of support in adulthood. Research is needed to identify additional factors that may explain the association between receipt of physical abuse in childhood and increased risk of child physical abuse in adulthood. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.