College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, USA; Department of Social Welfare, College of Social Sciences, Ewha Woman's University, South Korea.
Graduate School of Education, Kyung Hee University, South Korea.
Child Abuse Negl. 2024 Aug;154:106952. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106952. Epub 2024 Jul 24.
Child maltreatment may alter the way that adolescents engage in and interact within the places they visit in their daily routines, namely youth activity spaces. Thus, it is important to understand how maltreatment experiences are linked to adolescents' exposure to environmental and contextual risks within their activity spaces.
The aim of the study was to explore the associations between child maltreatment and patterns of risk exposures within youth activity spaces among adolescents.
Study participants were 1364 adolescents between the ages of 11 and 17, living in a Midwest state in the United States.
We linked data from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context (AHDC) study and the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS). A three-step latent class analysis (LCA) was employed.
Three contextual risk exposure classes were identified: 1) The aggression/violence class (7.7 %); 2) The smoking and drinking class (12.3 %); and 3) The non-risk class (80.0 %). Adolescents with more maltreatment reports were more likely to be in the aggression/violence class compared to the non-risk class.
Capitalizing on the novel linkage between administrative child welfare records and ecological momentary assessment (EMA)-based youth spatial/environmental exposure data, we found a positive link between the number of maltreatment reports made to child protective services and membership in the aggression/violence class. Intervention efforts should be directed toward youths with a history of child maltreatment, ensuring that they have access to safe, structured, and non-violent environments during their daily routines.
儿童虐待可能会改变青少年在日常活动空间中参与和互动的方式。因此，了解虐待经历如何与青少年在其活动空间中接触环境和背景风险有关，这一点很重要。
本研究旨在探讨儿童虐待与青少年在其活动空间中风险暴露模式之间的关系。
研究参与者为 1364 名年龄在 11 至 17 岁之间、居住在美国中西部一个州的青少年。
我们将来自青少年健康与发展背景（AHDC）研究和全州自动儿童福利信息系统（SACWIS）的数据进行了关联。采用三步潜类分析（LCA）。
确定了三个环境风险暴露类：1）攻击/暴力类（7.7%）；2）吸烟和饮酒类（12.3%）；3）无风险类（80.0%）。报告虐待事件较多的青少年更有可能属于攻击/暴力类，而不是无风险类。
利用行政儿童福利记录和基于生态瞬时评估（EMA）的青少年空间/环境暴露数据之间的新关联，我们发现向儿童保护服务机构报告的虐待事件数量与攻击/暴力类别的成员资格之间存在正相关关系。干预措施应针对有儿童虐待史的青少年，确保他们在日常生活中能够接触到安全、有组织和非暴力的环境。
