Neighborhoods and child maltreatment: A multi-level study
Neighborhoods and child maltreatment: A multi-level study
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DOI：
10.1016/s0145-2134(99)00076-9
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发表时间：
1999-11-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Su, M
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作者：
Coulton, CJ;Korbin, JE;Su, M
目的：为了更好地了解邻里和个人因素是如何与儿童虐待，方法：使用生态学框架，多层次模型（分层线性模型）被用来分析邻里结构条件和儿童虐待和忽视的个人危险因素。18岁以下儿童的父母（n = 400）从20个随机选择的人口普查定义的区块组中系统地选择，这些组具有不同的儿童虐待报告率风险特征。父母被管理的邻里环境儿童评级量表，虐待儿童的潜力清单，Zimet措施的社会支持，和冲突策略量表作为衡量儿童的经验与violence.Results：邻里因素的威胁和儿童保育负担显着影响虐待儿童的潜力后，控制个人的危险因素。然而，邻里效应比官方虐待儿童报告的综合研究中出现的要弱。社区内虐待儿童的可能性的变化大于社区之间的变化。然而，不利的邻里条件削弱了已知的个人风险和保护因素的影响，如家庭暴力的origin.Conclusions：如果个别潜在的虐待儿童更均匀地分布在整个社区比报告的虐待，那么邻里和社区发挥重要的，如果尚未指明，在虐待儿童的作用。多层次模型是一个很有前途的研究策略，解开在儿童虐待的个人和背景因素的复杂的相互作用。(C)1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.
Objective: To better understand how neighborhood and individual factors are related to child maltreatment.Method: Using an ecological framework, a multi-level model (Hierarchical Linear Modeling) was used to analyze neighborhood structural conditions and individual risk factors for child abuse and neglect. Parents (n = 400) of children under the age of 18 were systematically selected from 20 randomly selected census-defined block groups with different risk profiles for child maltreatment report rates. Parents were administered the Neighborhood Environment for Children Rating Scales, the Child Abuse Potential Inventory, the Zimet measure of social support, and the Conflict Tactics Scales as a measure of childhood experience with violence.Results: Neighborhood factors of impoverishment and child care burden significantly affect child abuse potential after controlling for individual risk factors. However, neighborhood effects are weaker than they appear to be in aggregate studies of official child maltreatment reports. Variation in child abuse potential within neighborhoods is greater than between neighborhoods. However, adverse neighborhood conditions weakened the effects of known individual risk and protective factors, such as violence in the family of origin.Conclusions: If individual potential for child maltreatment is more evenly distributed across neighborhoods than reported maltreatment, then neighborhood and community play an important, if as yet unspecified, role in child maltreatment. Multi-level models are a promising research strategy for disentangling the complex interactions of individual and contextual factors in child maltreatment. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.