ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2019
The reproduction of child maltreatment: An examination of adolescent problem behavior, substance use, and precocious transitions in the link between victimization and perpetration.
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- Intergenerational effects of childhood maltreatment: A systematic review of the parenting practices of adult survivors of childhood abuse, neglect, and violence.Clinical psychology review · 2020Pooled it
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- Breaking the Cycle: How Child Abuse and Neglect Ignite the Path to Addiction.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
- The mediating role of distress tolerance in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and anxiety in a sample of Lebanese adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Role of Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation in the Intergenerational Transmission of Childhood Abuse: A Family Study.Child maltreatment · 2025Article
- The influence of childhood maltreatment on substance use among students in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia: the mediating role of social support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The relative effects of parental alcohol use disorder and maltreatment on offspring alcohol use: Unique pathways of risk.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Protective factors for psychosocial outcomes following cumulative childhood adversity: systematic review.BJPsych open · 2023Review
- Early childhood psychosocial family risks and cumulative dopaminergic sensitizing score: Links to behavior problems in U.S. 9-year-olds.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Article
- The intergenerational transmission of harsh parenting, substance use, and emotional distress: Impact on the third-generation child.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
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Abstract
Growing evidence suggests that maltreatment is reproduced across generations as victims of maltreatment are at an increased risk for maltreatment perpetration. Unfortunately, little information about mediating pathways exists to provide an explanation for why maltreatment begets maltreatment. We use the number of types of maltreatment experienced to predict later maltreatment perpetration and then examine two developmental pathways that may serve as bridges between maltreatment victimization and perpetration: adolescent problem behaviors and precocious transitions to adulthood. With prospective, longitudinal data from the Rochester Youth Development Study, we assess the relevance of these pathways for the number of maltreatment experiences as well as the number of maltreatment victimization experiences by developmental period (i.e., childhood and adolescence). Our results demonstrate a significant relationship between maltreatment victimization and maltreatment perpetration. Adolescent delinquency and two precocious transitions, dropping out of school and independent living, as well as the accumulation of precocious transitions and problem behaviors, serve as mediators of this intergenerational relationship. Furthermore, the relationship between the number of types of maltreatment and subsequent perpetration is primarily driven by experiences of maltreatment during adolescence. We discuss the implications of these results and set an agenda for the development of programs and policies to interrupt the cycle of maltreatment.
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