TY - JOUR
T1 - The Relative Influence of Family and Neighborhood Factors on Child Maltreatment at Critical Stages of Child Development
AU - Maguire-Jack, Kathryn
AU - Yoon, Susan
AU - Chang, Yujeong
AU - Hong, Sunghyun
N1 - Funding Information:
The data were made available by Fragile Families funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development R01-HD-036916.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - This study examines the impact of family and neighborhood factors on physical and psychological abuse across three developmental stages of children: early childhood (age 3), young school age (age 5), and middle childhood (age 9). Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal national cohort study of children from 20 urban U.S. cities, are used. Path analysis is employed to investigate the longitudinal relationships between family and neighborhood context variables and abuse risk, as well as the importance of different factors at key developmental stages. Economic hardship, maternal substance use, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence are found to be related to child abuse risk regardless of developmental stage, while maternal depression and neighborhood informal social control are found to have impacts only within certain child development stages. Findings suggest the need for early intervention and prevention strategies that specifically target economic hardship, poverty, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence.
AB - This study examines the impact of family and neighborhood factors on physical and psychological abuse across three developmental stages of children: early childhood (age 3), young school age (age 5), and middle childhood (age 9). Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal national cohort study of children from 20 urban U.S. cities, are used. Path analysis is employed to investigate the longitudinal relationships between family and neighborhood context variables and abuse risk, as well as the importance of different factors at key developmental stages. Economic hardship, maternal substance use, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence are found to be related to child abuse risk regardless of developmental stage, while maternal depression and neighborhood informal social control are found to have impacts only within certain child development stages. Findings suggest the need for early intervention and prevention strategies that specifically target economic hardship, poverty, intimate partner violence, and exposure to community violence.
KW - Families
KW - Neighborhoods
KW - Path analysis
KW - Risk and protective factors
KW - child maltreatment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123765790&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/children9020163
DO - 10.3390/children9020163
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123765790
SN - 2227-9067
VL - 9
JO - Children
JF - Children
IS - 2
M1 - 163
ER -