ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2019
Developmental cascades from child maltreatment to negative friend and romantic interactions in emerging adulthood.
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- The association between child maltreatment and mental disorders in the Australian Child Maltreatment Study.The Medical journal of Australia · 2023Article
- The stress-buffering role of friendships in young people with childhood threat experiences: a preliminary report.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Longitudinal Effects from Childhood Abuse to Bullying Perpetration in Adolescence: The Role of Mental Health and Social Problems.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2022Article
- Patterns of Child Maltreatment and the Development of Conflictual Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships: An Examination of Mechanisms and Gender Moderation.Child maltreatment · 2021Article
- Characterizing competence among a high-risk sample of emerging adults: Prospective predictions and biological considerations.Development and psychopathology · 2020Article
- The Interactive Effects of Child Maltreatment and Adolescent Pregnancy on Late-Adolescent Depressive Symptoms.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Maltreatment during childhood is associated with difficult interpersonal relationships throughout the life course. The aim of the current study was to investigate differential pathways from child maltreatment to emerging adult relationship dysfunction. Specifically, we prospectively tested whether child maltreatment initiates a developmental cascade resulting in coercive negative romantic and friend interactions in emerging adulthood via childhood antisocial tendencies and via childhood relational aggression. Utilizing a longitudinal sample of emerging adult participants (N = 392; mean age = 20 years old) who took part in a summer research camp program as children (mean age = 11 years old), results supported pathways via both childhood antisocial behavior and childhood relational aggression. We found specificity within these pathways such that childhood antisocial behavior was a mediator of child maltreatment effects on emerging adult negative romantic interactions, whereas childhood relational aggression was a mediator of child maltreatment effects on emerging adult negative friend interactions. Taken together, results indicate that children exposed to maltreatment face significant interpersonal challenges in emerging adulthood, within both the friend and the romantic domains, and point to distinct childhood pathways to these negative interactions. Our findings are consistent with Dishion's (2016) theoretical framework for understanding the development of coercion in relationships and highlight the criticality of early intervention with maltreating families.
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