Maguire-Jack Kathryn, Yoon Susan, Chang Yujeong, Hong Sunghyun
School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Children (Basel). 2022 Jan 27;9(2):163. doi: 10.3390/children9020163.
This study examines the impact of family and neighborhood factors on physical and psychological abuse across three developmental stages of children: early childhood (age 3), young school age (age 5), and middle childhood (age 9). Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal national cohort study of children from 20 urban U.S. cities, are used. Path analysis is employed to investigate the longitudinal relationships between family and neighborhood context variables and abuse risk, as well as the importance of different factors at key developmental stages. Economic hardship, maternal substance use, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence are found to be related to child abuse risk regardless of developmental stage, while maternal depression and neighborhood informal social control are found to have impacts only within certain child development stages. Findings suggest the need for early intervention and prevention strategies that specifically target economic hardship, poverty, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence.
本研究考察了家庭和邻里因素对儿童三个发育阶段（幼儿期（3岁）、小学低年级（5岁）和小学中年级（9岁））身体虐待和心理虐待的影响。研究使用了脆弱家庭与儿童福利研究的数据，该研究是一项对美国20个城市儿童进行的全国性纵向队列研究。采用路径分析来探究家庭和邻里环境变量与虐待风险之间的纵向关系，以及不同因素在关键发育阶段的重要性。研究发现，无论处于哪个发育阶段，经济困难、母亲使用药物、亲密伴侣暴力以及接触社区暴力都与儿童虐待风险相关，而母亲抑郁和邻里非正式社会控制仅在特定儿童发育阶段产生影响。研究结果表明，需要制定专门针对经济困难、贫困、亲密伴侣暴力和接触社区暴力的早期干预和预防策略。
