Nickerson Amanda B, Seay Danielle, Manges Margaret E, Grossman Hannah, Delmerico Alan M, Godleski Stephanie A, Schuetze Pamela, Eiden Rina D
Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Department of Psychology, Consortium for Combating Substance Abuse, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
Aggress Behav. 2025 May;51(3):e70033. doi: 10.1002/ab.70033.
The dynamic, longitudinal interplay between caregiving environmental risk (e.g., caregiver postnatal substance use and psychological symptoms, caregiving instability, exposure to violence) and child aggression is not well understood, particularly for substance-exposed children. A random intercept cross-lagged panel model was used to examine within- and between-family variability in the reciprocal relations between caregiving environmental risk and child aggression from infancy to kindergarten age, and their contribution to early adolescent aggression, with prenatal substance exposure as an exogenous predictor, controlling for maternal education, child sex, and peer delinquency. The sample included 216 mother-child dyads (49% boys; 57.6% African American). Multimethod assessments were conducted at infancy, toddlerhood, early-preschool, late-preschool, kindergarten, and early adolescence. Positive cross-lagged effects from child aggression to caregiving environmental risk revealed that after a temporary increase in aggression, children were exposed to more caregiving environmental risk a year later. Positive reciprocal paths from caregiving environmental risk at infancy and toddlerhood to child aggression a year later indicated that children had increased aggression at toddlerhood and early preschool when exposed to higher-than-expected levels of caregiving environmental risk the year prior. In contrast, caregiving environmental risk at early preschool and late preschool did not relate to child aggression a year later and caregiving environmental risk at kindergarten did not relate to early adolescent aggression. Findings highlight the ways in which child behavior impacts caregiving environmental risk and have implications for identifying and intervening with early childhood aggression and the contexts in which it occurs.
照顾环境风险（例如，照顾者产后物质使用和心理症状、照顾不稳定、接触暴力）与儿童攻击行为之间动态、纵向的相互作用尚未得到充分理解，尤其是对于接触过物质的儿童。本研究使用随机截距交叉滞后面板模型，考察了从婴儿期到幼儿园阶段，照顾环境风险与儿童攻击行为之间相互关系的家庭内部和家庭间变异性，以及它们对青少年早期攻击行为的影响，并将产前物质暴露作为外生预测变量，同时控制母亲教育程度、儿童性别和同伴犯罪情况。样本包括216对母子二元组（49%为男孩；57.6%为非裔美国人）。在婴儿期、幼儿期、学前早期、学前晚期、幼儿园和青少年早期进行了多方法评估。从儿童攻击行为到照顾环境风险的正向交叉滞后效应表明，在攻击行为暂时增加后，儿童在一年后会面临更多的照顾环境风险。婴儿期和幼儿期的照顾环境风险到一年后儿童攻击行为的正向互惠路径表明，当儿童在前一年接触到高于预期水平的照顾环境风险时，他们在幼儿期和学前早期的攻击行为会增加。相比之下，学前早期和学前晚期的照顾环境风险与一年后的儿童攻击行为无关，幼儿园时期的照顾环境风险与青少年早期攻击行为无关。研究结果突出了儿童行为影响照顾环境风险的方式，并对识别和干预幼儿攻击行为及其发生的背景具有启示意义。
