School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA.
Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2023 Feb;38(3-4):2510-2533. doi: 10.1177/08862605221101185. Epub 2022 Jun 2.
All forms of family violence may negatively affect a child's development. However, research on child maltreatment is primarily focused on the child who is directly maltreated and does not often account for how other children in the family experience the abuse. The central aim of our study was to better understand how children's direct experience of physical abuse and exposure to physical abuse influence their academic outcomes. Data were taken from the Minnesota Departments of Education and Human Services. The sample was developed from a population-level cohort of 8-10 years old children ( = 1740) from two groups: Child Protective Service (CPS)-involved (a child who allegedly experienced physical abuse or a child who was exposed to the alleged physical abuse of another child in their household) and the matched comparison. Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) was also measured for CPS-involved children. School attendance and academic achievement were examined over 4 years. Descriptive statistics and Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) were used to answer the three research questions. Over time, declines in attendance for children exposed to physical abuse were significantly greater than those of their matched peers. Exposure to IPV for CPS-involved children resulted in further declines in attendance. Math proficiency of children who experienced physical abuse declined at a significantly faster rate than their matched peers. The decline in reading proficiency of both children who experienced physical abuse and children exposed to physical abuse was more significantly pronounced than that of their matched peers. Differences in math and reading proficiency were eliminated when IPV exposure was taken into account. Child protection workers and school professionals should be aware of negative effects of experiences of and exposures to child maltreatment and work collaboratively to provide academic support, counseling, and other interventions to support children's academic stability.
所有形式的家庭暴力都可能对儿童的发展产生负面影响。然而，儿童虐待的研究主要集中在直接受虐待的儿童身上，而通常不考虑家庭中的其他儿童如何体验虐待。我们研究的核心目的是更好地了解儿童直接遭受身体虐待和接触身体虐待如何影响他们的学业成绩。数据来自明尼苏达州教育部和人类服务部。该样本是从两个群体的 8-10 岁儿童人群水平队列中开发的：儿童保护服务（CPS）涉及（据称经历过身体虐待的儿童或其家庭中另一儿童遭受身体虐待的儿童）和匹配的对照组。还对 CPS 涉及的儿童进行了亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）暴露的测量。在 4 年内检查了出勤率和学业成绩。使用描述性统计和广义估计方程（GEE）回答了三个研究问题。随着时间的推移，暴露于身体虐待的儿童出勤率下降幅度明显大于其匹配的同龄人。CPS 涉及的儿童接触 IPV 会导致出勤率进一步下降。经历过身体虐待的儿童的数学成绩下降速度明显快于其匹配的同龄人。经历过身体虐待和接触过身体虐待的儿童的阅读成绩下降速度明显快于其匹配的同龄人。当考虑到 IPV 暴露时，数学和阅读成绩的差异消失了。儿童保护工作者和学校专业人员应意识到儿童虐待的经历和暴露的负面影响，并共同努力提供学术支持、咨询和其他干预措施，以支持儿童的学业稳定。
