School of Educational Science, 12441Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.
Child Maltreat. 2022 Nov;27(4):683-692. doi: 10.1177/10775595211046550. Epub 2021 Nov 3.
A growing body of research has documented that childhood maltreatment is associated with increased risk of child aggression. However, little is known about the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying the relationships between childhood maltreatment and reactive and proactive functions of aggression. Therefore, the present study examined whether callous-unemotional traits mediated the relationships between childhood maltreatment and two subtypes of aggression and whether these mediating processes were moderated by friendship quality. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 2407 adolescents between 11 and 16 years ( = 12.75, = .58) in Shanxi province, China. Participants filled out questionnaires regarding childhood maltreatment, callous-unemotional traits, aggression, and friendship quality. The results indicated that childhood maltreatment was significantly and positively associated with proactive and reactive aggression, and these relationships were partially mediated by callous-unemotional traits after controlling for demographic variables. Friendship quality moderated the relationship between childhood maltreatment and proactive aggression as well as callous-unemotional traits and proactive aggression. These relationships became weaker for adolescents with high levels of friendship quality. Friendship quality did not moderate the effects of childhood maltreatment and callous-unemotional traits on reactive aggression.
越来越多的研究证明，儿童期虐待与儿童攻击行为的风险增加有关。然而，对于儿童期虐待与攻击行为的反应和主动功能之间关系的中介和调节机制知之甚少。因此，本研究考察了无情特质是否在儿童期虐待与两种类型的攻击行为之间的关系中起中介作用，以及这些中介过程是否受到友谊质量的调节。在中国山西省，对 2407 名 11 至 16 岁的青少年（ = 12.75， =.58）进行了一项横断面研究。参与者填写了关于儿童期虐待、无情特质、攻击行为和友谊质量的问卷。结果表明，儿童期虐待与主动和反应性攻击显著正相关，在控制了人口统计学变量后，这些关系部分通过无情特质来介导。友谊质量调节了儿童期虐待与主动攻击以及无情特质与主动攻击之间的关系。对于具有高水平友谊质量的青少年来说，这些关系变得较弱。友谊质量并没有调节儿童期虐待和无情特质对反应性攻击的影响。
