Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.
College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2024 Feb;36(1):467-477. doi: 10.1017/S095457942200133X. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
Although child maltreatment is associated with short- and long-term maladaptive outcomes, some children are still able to display resilience. Currently, there is a limited understanding of how children's resilience changes over time after experiencing maltreatment, especially for young children. Therefore, the current study used a longitudinal, multidimensional approach to examine trajectories of resilience among very young children involved in child protective services and determine whether placement setting and caregiving behaviors are associated with resilience trajectories. This study used data from National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being I and conducted repeated measures latent class analysis, focusing on children under 2 years old at baseline ( = 1,699). Results suggested that there were three trajectories of resilience: increasing resilience, decreasing resilience, and stable, low resilience. Caregiver cognitive stimulation was related to increasing trajectories of resilience compared to both decreasing and stable, low resilience. These findings illustrate the importance of caregiving behaviors for promoting resilience among a particularly vulnerable population.
尽管儿童虐待与短期和长期适应不良的结果有关，但有些儿童仍然能够表现出韧性。目前，对于经历虐待后儿童的韧性如何随时间变化，人们的理解有限，特别是对于幼儿。因此，目前的研究使用纵向、多维的方法来研究参与儿童保护服务的非常年幼的儿童的韧性轨迹，并确定安置环境和照顾行为是否与韧性轨迹相关。本研究使用了来自全国儿童和青少年福利调查 I 的数据，并进行了重复测量潜在类别分析，重点关注基线时年龄在 2 岁以下的儿童（n = 1699）。结果表明，存在三种韧性轨迹：不断增强的韧性、不断减弱的韧性和稳定的低韧性。与不断减弱和稳定的低韧性相比，照顾者的认知刺激与不断增强的韧性轨迹相关。这些发现说明了照顾行为对于促进一个特别脆弱群体的韧性的重要性。
