ArticleChild abuse & neglect2021
Child maltreatment: An intergenerational cascades model of risk processes potentiating child psychopathology.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Parental Preconception Adversity and Offspring Mental Health in African Americans and Native Americans in the United States: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
- Mediators and moderators in the relationship between maternal childhood adversity and children's emotional and behavioural development: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2022Pooled it
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- Intergenerational transmission of maternal childhood maltreatment, prenatal substance exposure, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in early adolescence at age 12.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Association between childhood maltreatment patterns and comorbidity of depression and anxiety in left-behind children: a latent class analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- A prospective investigation of whether parent psychopathology explains the relationship between parent maltreatment and offspring mental health.Development and psychopathology · 2026Article
- Maternal History of Child Maltreatment Predicts Dysregulated Offspring Stress Response System Functioning.Child maltreatment · 2025Article
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- Examining Interpersonal Traumas Across Low Income Latinx Mother-Youth Dyads: Associations Between Maternal Child Abuse Exposure and Racial Discrimination with Mother and Youth Psychopathology.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- The relative effects of parental alcohol use disorder and maltreatment on offspring alcohol use: Unique pathways of risk.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Intergenerational effects of child maltreatment on adolescents' anxiety and depression in Ethiopia: the important mediating and moderating roles of current psychological distress.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Investigating the associations between prenatal exposure to substances and intergenerational maltreatment and symptoms of psychopathology for adolescent girls from families with low income.Child abuse & neglect · 2024Article
- Is there intergenerational continuity in early life experiences? Findings from the Harvard Study of Adult Development.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
- The Influences of Children's and Maternal Childhood Adversity on Externalizing Problems in Early Adolescence.The Journal of early adolescence · 2023Article
- Maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and DNA methylation of newborns in cord blood.Clinical epigenetics · 2023Article
- Intergenerational Effects of Childhood Maltreatment: Role of Emotion Dysregulation and Emotion Socialization.Journal of child and family studies · 2023Article
- The Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS), a national survey of the prevalence of child maltreatment and its correlates: methodology.The Medical journal of Australia · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundChild maltreatment poses substantial risk for compromised mental health in children. Further, child abuse and neglect are potentiated within a cascade of intergenerational and current familial risk processes that require clarification to inform understanding of adverse outcomes and direct prevention and intervention efforts.
objectiveUsing a multi-informant design, the current study applied an intergenerational cascades approach to examine the interconnected pathways among several familial risk factors associated with child maltreatment and its consequences.
participantsParticipants were 378 children (aged 10-12) and their mothers from economically disadvantaged, ethnically diverse backgrounds. The sample included maltreated children recruited via CPS records and demographically comparable non-maltreated children.
methodsStructural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted to test sequential mediation pathways examining the independent and cascading effects of maternal history of childhood maltreatment, maternal adolescent childbearing, current maternal depression, and the child's lifetime history of maltreatment on the child's internalizing and externalizing symptoms.
resultsMultigenerational developmental cascades were identified. Maternal history of maltreatment predicted chronic maltreatment for offspring, which in turn predicted greater internalizing (β = .167, p = .03) and externalizing symptoms (β = .236, p = .005) in late childhood. Similarly, children born to mothers who began childbearing in adolescence were more likely to experience chronic maltreatment during childhood and develop subsequent symptoms. Effects were found over and above a parallel cascade from maternal maltreatment to offspring psychopathology via a maternal depression pathway.
conclusionFindings reveal targets to prevent or ameliorate progressions of intergenerational risk pathways.
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