Kamis Christina, Copeland Molly
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 2024 Dec;158:107125. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107125. Epub 2024 Nov 5.
Childhood maltreatment can affect subsequent social relationships, including different facets of peer relationships. Yet, how prior maltreatment shapes adolescents' connections within school peer networks is unclear, despite the rich literature showing the importance of this structural aspect of social integration in adolescence.
This study examines how childhood physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and physical neglect predict adolescent social network structure as withdrawal, avoidance, and fragmentation among peers.
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) Waves I, III, and IV yield a sample of 9154 respondents with valid network data and survey of childhood maltreatment.
Models using linear regression examine childhood maltreatment predicting withdrawal, avoidance, and fragmentation in adolescent peer networks. Maltreatment is first measured as ever occurring, then separately by maltreatment type.
Results indicate that experiencing any maltreatment leads to withdrawal (lower sociality, B = -0.214, p = 0.008), avoidance (lower popularity, B = -0.222, p = 0.007), and fragmentation (lower cohesion, B = -0.009, p < 0.001). However, different types of maltreatment are associated with different dimensions of peer networks, with only physical neglect impacting all three dimensions.
Experiencing any maltreatment in childhood predicts lower integration in the adolescent peer network structure across three dimensions. However, distinct types of maltreatment relate differently to separate network dimensions, with sexual abuse predicting withdrawal, emotional and physical abuse predicting avoidance and fragmentation, and physical neglect predicting lower integration on all three dimensions.
童年期受虐待会影响后续的社会关系，包括同伴关系的不同方面。然而，尽管有大量文献表明社会融合的这一结构方面在青少年时期很重要，但之前的虐待如何塑造青少年在学校同伴网络中的联系尚不清楚。
本研究探讨童年期身体虐待、情感虐待、性虐待和身体忽视如何预测青少年社会网络结构，即同伴间的退缩、回避和分裂。
来自“青少年到成人健康全国纵向研究”（Add Health）第一、三、四轮的数据产生了一个样本，其中有9154名受访者拥有有效的网络数据并接受了童年期虐待调查。
使用线性回归模型研究童年期虐待对青少年同伴网络中的退缩、回避和分裂的预测作用。虐待首先被衡量为是否曾经发生，然后按虐待类型分别衡量。
结果表明，经历任何虐待都会导致退缩（社交性降低，B = -0.214，p = 0.008）、回避（受欢迎程度降低，B = -0.222，p = 0.007）和分裂（凝聚力降低，B = -0.009，p <0.001）。然而，不同类型的虐待与同伴网络的不同维度相关，只有身体忽视会影响所有三个维度。
童年期经历任何虐待都预示着在青少年同伴网络结构的三个维度上整合度较低。然而，不同类型的虐待与不同的网络维度有不同的关联，性虐待预示着退缩，情感和身体虐待预示着回避和分裂，身体忽视预示着在所有三个维度上的整合度较低。
