TY - JOUR
T1 - Child maltreatment and youth exposure to risky environments
T2 - Latent class analysis of youth activity spaces
AU - Yoon, Susan
AU - Yang, Junyeong
AU - Wang, Jingyi
AU - Boettner, Bethany
AU - Browning, Christopher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors
PY - 2024/8
Y1 - 2024/8
N2 - Background: 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. Objective: The aim of the study was to explore the associations between child maltreatment and patterns of risk exposures within youth activity spaces among adolescents. Participants and setting: Study participants were 1364 adolescents between the ages of 11 and 17, living in a Midwest state in the United States. Methods: 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. Results: 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. Conclusions: 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.
AB - Background: 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. Objective: The aim of the study was to explore the associations between child maltreatment and patterns of risk exposures within youth activity spaces among adolescents. Participants and setting: Study participants were 1364 adolescents between the ages of 11 and 17, living in a Midwest state in the United States. Methods: 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. Results: 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. Conclusions: 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.
KW - Activity space
KW - Child maltreatment
KW - Contextual risk
KW - Latent class analysis
KW - Youth
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85199401441&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106952
DO - 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106952
M3 - Article
C2 - 39053221
AN - SCOPUS:85199401441
SN - 0145-2134
VL - 154
JO - Child Abuse and Neglect
JF - Child Abuse and Neglect
M1 - 106952
ER -