ArticleChild abuse & neglect2024
Childhood maltreatment associated with adolescent peer networks: Withdrawal, avoidance, and fragmentation.
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- How Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Prosocial Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Pooled it
- Social contact recovery and depressive symptoms after the pandemic lockdowns: the lasting impact of child neglect.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundChildhood maltreatment can affect subsequent social relationships, including different facets of peer relationships. Yet, how prior maltreatment shapes adolescents' connections within school peer networks is unclear, despite the rich literature showing the importance of this structural aspect of social integration in adolescence.
objectivesThis study examines how childhood physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and physical neglect predict adolescent social network structure as withdrawal, avoidance, and fragmentation among peers. PARTICIPANTS AND
settingData from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) Waves I, III, and IV yield a sample of 9154 respondents with valid network data and survey of childhood maltreatment.
methodsModels using linear regression examine childhood maltreatment predicting withdrawal, avoidance, and fragmentation in adolescent peer networks. Maltreatment is first measured as ever occurring, then separately by maltreatment type.
resultsResults indicate that experiencing any maltreatment leads to withdrawal (lower sociality, B = -0.214, p = 0.008), avoidance (lower popularity, B = -0.222, p = 0.007), and fragmentation (lower cohesion, B = -0.009, p < 0.001). However, different types of maltreatment are associated with different dimensions of peer networks, with only physical neglect impacting all three dimensions.
conclusionsExperiencing any maltreatment in childhood predicts lower integration in the adolescent peer network structure across three dimensions. However, distinct types of maltreatment relate differently to separate network dimensions, with sexual abuse predicting withdrawal, emotional and physical abuse predicting avoidance and fragmentation, and physical neglect predicting lower integration on all three dimensions.
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