ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2018
Developmental pathways from maltreatment to risk behavior: Sexual behavior as a catalyst.
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- A meta-analysis of the association between posttraumatic stress symptoms and problematic sexual behavior among preteen children.Journal of traumatic stress · 2025Pooled it
- Problematic Sexual Behavior Among Children: A Meta-Analysis of Demographic and Clinical Correlates.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Pooled it
- Childhood Sexual Behavior as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Sexual Abuse and Early Sexual Debut: A Prospective Analysis.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Interpersonal Mechanisms Between Child Maltreatment Timing and Young Adult Internalizing and Externalizing Symptomatology.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Childhood maltreatment and alcohol and tobacco use trajectories in rural Chinese adolescents.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Developmental pathways from child maltreatment to adolescent pregnancy: A multiple mediational model.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- The Young Adolescent Project: A longitudinal study of the effects of maltreatment on adolescent development.Development and psychopathology · 2020Article
- Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees.Health & justice · 2020Article
- How the Structure of Egocentric Facebook Networks is Associated With Exposure to Risky Content for Maltreated versus Comparison Youth.Children and youth services review · 2020Article
- A pilot study examining risk behavior in facebook posts for maltreated versus comparison youth using content analysis.Child abuse & neglect · 2019Article
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Abstract
Although delinquency, substance use, and sexual activity are established to be highly intercorrelated, the extant research provides minimal evidence in support of one particular sequence of risk behavior or on the cascade effects from maltreatment. The present study tested a longitudinal model incorporating maltreatment, deviant peers, sexual behavior, delinquency, and substance use to elucidate the sequential pathway(s) from maltreatment to each specific risk behavior throughout adolescence. Data came from a longitudinal study on the effects of maltreatment on adolescent development (N = 454) with four study assessments from early (Time 1 M age = 10.98) to late adolescence (Time 4 M age = 18.22). Results from the cross-lagged model showed a sequence from maltreatment to sexual behavior (Time 1), to delinquency (Time 2), to sexual behavior (Time 3), to substance use and delinquency (Time 4). These findings support sexual behavior as the initial risk behavior that is the catalyst for engagement in more advanced risk behaviors across adolescence.
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