Child maltreatment: Testing the social isolation hypothesis
Child maltreatment: Testing the social isolation hypothesis
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DOI：
10.1016/s0145-2134(95)00143-3
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发表时间：
1996-03-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Coohey, C
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作者：
Coohey, C
一些障碍限制了我们试图理清虐待儿童的社会背景。一个主要障碍是我们无法就什么是社会孤立达成一致或有效沟通。为了澄清这一概念，引言部分追溯了过去三十年来社会孤立概念的演变，并得出结论：它不是儿童虐待的一个病因因素，而是与父母对支持的看法及其非正式和正式网络相关的一大批变量。实证部分通过比较300名虐待和非虐待的低收入母亲来检验社会隔离结构的每个组成部分。不同类型的虐待母亲和非虐待母亲的网络在结构网络属性、支持感知以及她们接受和不接受的资源类型方面存在相当大的差异。例如，被忽视的母亲有更少的网络成员，更少的联系人，更少的生活在1小时内的成员，获得更少的情感和工具资源。尽管有这些发现，“社会孤立”的标签可能不能准确地描述虐待孩子的母亲的网络，因为所有三种类型的虐待者至少有8个重要的网络成员，在完成调查问卷之前的一个月内与这些成员有100多个联系。
Several barriers limit our attempts to untangle the social context of child maltreatment. One major barrier is our inability to agree on or effectively communicate what social isolation is. In an attempt to clarify this construct, the introductory section traces the evolution of the social isolation construct over the last three decades and concludes it is not one etiologic factor for child maltreatment, brit rather, a large set of variables linked to the parent's perception of support, and their informal and formal networks. The empirical section examines each component of the social isolation construct by comparing 300 maltreating and nonmaltreating low-income mothers. Considerable variation is found between the networks of different types of maltreating mothers and nonmaltreating mothers on structural network properties, perception of support, and the types of resources they do and do not receive. For example, neglectful mothers had fewer network members, fewer contacts, fewer members living within 1 hour, and received fewer emotional and instrumental resources. Despite these findings, the label ''social isolation'' may not accurately describe the networks of mothers who maltreat their children, since all three types of maltreaters had at least eight important network members and more than 100 contacts with these members in the month before completing the questionnaire.