Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA; Consortium for Translational Research on Aggression and Drug Abuse (ConTRADA), University of Kansas, 2009 Dole Human Development Center, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA; Consortium for Translational Research on Aggression and Drug Abuse (ConTRADA), University of Kansas, 2009 Dole Human Development Center, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 2022 Jun;128:105591. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105591. Epub 2022 Mar 17.
Child maltreatment has emerged as an important risk factor for substance use. However, despite evidence consistently demonstrating that substance use peaks during emerging adulthood, less is known about the specificity of maltreatment effects on substance use during this critical developmental period. Further, the factors that might play a role in these associations are not well understood.
The current study examined the associations between child maltreatment types (i.e., physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and emotional neglect) and past month marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco use among emerging adults, and tested whether impulsivity accounted for these associations.
Participants were 500 emerging adults ranging in age between 18 and 25 years old (M = 18.96, SD = 1.22, 49.6% male) recruited from a large, public university in the Midwest United States.
Tests of indirect effects suggested that impulsivity accounted for associations between emotional abuse and past month marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco use.
Current findings provide support for impulsivity as a mechanism linking childhood emotional abuse to substance use among emerging adults, highlighting the need for targeted screening and intervention.
虐待儿童已成为物质使用的一个重要风险因素。然而，尽管有证据一致表明物质使用在成年早期达到高峰，但对于在这个关键发育时期虐待对物质使用的具体影响知之甚少。此外，对于这些关联中可能起作用的因素还不太了解。
本研究探讨了儿童虐待类型（即身体虐待、身体忽视、性虐待、情感虐待和情感忽视）与成年早期个体过去一个月内大麻、酒精和烟草使用之间的关联，并检验了冲动性是否解释了这些关联。
参与者为 500 名年龄在 18 至 25 岁之间的成年早期个体（M=18.96，SD=1.22，49.6%为男性），他们来自美国中西部一所大型公立大学。
间接效应检验表明，冲动性解释了情感虐待与过去一个月大麻、酒精和烟草使用之间的关联。
目前的研究结果为冲动性作为一种机制提供了支持，这种机制将儿童期情感虐待与成年早期个体的物质使用联系起来，突出了需要进行有针对性的筛查和干预。
