School of Social Work, 242162University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
Brown School of Social Work, 51503Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2022 Feb;27(1):12-24. doi: 10.1177/1077559520969886. Epub 2020 Oct 29.
Attention to the relationship between neighborhood context and child maltreatment is growing. However, no study exists that considers families' residential moves and neighborhood changes longitudinally. This is particularly relevant to disadvantaged families who move frequently. Our sample includes children who experienced a child maltreatment report (CMR) or an AFDC case in early childhood. We followed up these children from 1995 to 2009 through various administrative databases. We used multilevel logistic growth curve models to estimate the CMR likelihood at each age from 1 to 16. Estimates were limited to ages on AFDC/TANF to trace families' residential addresses based on AFDC/TANF payee records. Our findings highlight the importance of tracing residential neighborhoods in a longitudinal study. While doing so, we identify some possible neighborhood contextual influences. These, however, are small in contribution to overall risk and are less observable among children that are more vulnerable.
越来越多的人开始关注邻里环境与儿童虐待之间的关系。然而，目前还没有研究能够从纵向角度来考虑家庭的居住迁移和邻里变化。这对于经常搬家的贫困家庭来说尤为重要。我们的研究样本包括在儿童时期经历过儿童虐待报告（CMR）或 AFDC 案件的儿童。我们通过各种行政数据库，从 1995 年开始对这些儿童进行了长达 14 年的跟踪调查。我们使用多层次逻辑增长曲线模型来估计从 1 岁到 16 岁每个年龄段的 CMR 可能性。估计值仅限于接受 AFDC/TANF 援助的年龄，以便根据 AFDC/TANF 受助人记录追踪家庭的居住地址。我们的研究结果强调了在纵向研究中追踪居住社区的重要性。在这样做的过程中，我们发现了一些可能的邻里环境影响因素。然而，这些因素对整体风险的贡献较小，并且在更脆弱的儿童中不太明显。
