Child abuse, self-control, and delinquency: A general strain perspective

Bunch, Jackson M.; Iratzoqui, Amaia; Watts, Stephen J.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.09.009

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“…Maltreated people tend to make negative attribution (internal, stable, and uncontrollable), 23 and they have less self-control than those who had not been abused. 54,55 Prior study has proved that authentic pride is positively correlated with selfcontrol, whereas hubristic pride is negatively correlated with self-control. 56 Thus, maltreated people tend to feel hubristic pride frequently and authentic pride rarely.…”

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How is childhood maltreatment linked to benign envy/malicious envy? The mediating role of self‐esteem, authentic pride and hubristic pride

Xiang

2020

Personality & Mental Health

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Objective-This study aimed to investigate the role of pride and self-esteem in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and benign envy/malicious envy in Chinese college students. Methods-One thousand fifty-one Chinese college students completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Authentic and Hubristic Pride-Proneness Scale and the Benign and Malicious Envy Scale, and the significance test of mediating variables was performed. Results-Self-esteem and hubristic pride independently mediated the relationship between childhood maltreatment and benign envy/malicious envy, authentic pride only played a mediating role in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and benign envy. More importantly, the model indicated that childhood maltreatment could influence benign envy/malicious envy through the chain mediating path of 'authentic pride-self-esteem' and 'hubristic pride-self-esteem'. Conclusions-Authentic pride, hubristic pride and self-esteem might be the possible mechanisms through which childhood maltreatment influences benign envy/malicious envy in adulthood. This study provides insights into the role of pride and self-esteem in the childhood maltreatment-benign (malicious) envy link from the perspective of the learned helplessness theory.

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How is childhood maltreatment linked to benign envy/malicious envy? The mediating role of self‐esteem, authentic pride and hubristic pride

Xiang

2020

Personality & Mental Health

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“…Studies also link individually measured ACEs with low self-control. Using data drawn from the Add Health study, Bunch et al (2018) found a positive association between experiencing abuse as a child and reduced self-control. Other studies link family violence with greater impulsivity (e.g., Hallquist et al, 2015; Monahan, King, Shulman, Cauffman, & Chassin, 2015; Shin, McDonald, & Conley, 2018).…”

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“…For example, research links ACEs to the impulsivity dimension of (low) self-control (Perez, Jennings, & Baglivio, 2018) and a lack of future orientation (Craig, 2019). Other studies report that individually measured ACEs, including child abuse, family substance abuse, and family violence, are associated with reduced self-control (e.g., Bunch, Iratzoqui, & Watts, 2018; Hallquist, Hipwell, & Stepp, 2015; Meldrum, Trucco, Cope, Zucker, & Heitzeg, 2018).…”

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Are Adverse Childhood Experiences Associated With Deficits in Self-Control? A Test Among Two Independent Samples of Youth

Meldrum

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Soor

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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A large body of research links both a lack of self-control and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to a variety of negative health and behavior outcomes, including delinquent and criminal behavior. To date, relatively little research considers whether experiencing a greater variety of ACEs is associated with lower self-control. We advance this area of research by first articulating potential mechanisms through which ACEs may impact self-control. We then investigate whether experiencing more ACEs is inversely associated with self-control in separate samples of youth from Michigan and Florida. For both samples, results indicate that experiencing a greater variety of ACEs is negatively associated with self-control. Exploratory analyses also indicate that ACEs reflecting interpersonal maltreatment are more strongly associated with deficits in self-control than ACEs pertaining to aspects of household dysfunction.

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“…Though the existing literature provided us examples of potential protective factors, much of this research was limited in specific ways. First, while several of these studies also used Add Health data, some were limited to the first three waves or to more narrow age ranges while others did not explore protective factors [35] or explored different protective factors [36] than we did. Second, it was less common to see multiple protective factors explored together in the same study.…”

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Disrupting the link between maltreatment and delinquency: how school, family, and community factors can be protective

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Background Past experiences of childhood maltreatment are common for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. This paper explores potential protective factors at the peer, family, school, and neighborhood levels that disrupt the relationship between maltreatment and later non-violent and violent offending behavior and how these protective effects vary by a number of different sociodemographics. Methods We used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), a nationally representative longitudinal study of adolescents who were in grades 7–12 in the 1994–95 school year. Pulling data from Add Health respondents from ages 13 to 30, we used linear mixed effects modeling to create growth curves of predicted violent and non-violent offending frequency from adolescence into young adulthood, with maltreatment frequency as a predictor. Next, we tested whether potential protective factors including time with friends, a high-quality relationship with a parent figure, school connection, or neighborhood collective efficacy moderated the intercept or slope of the growth curves. Finally, we tested if sex, race/ethnicity, or sexual orientation moderated these protective effects. Results For violent offending, school connection, high-quality relationships with mother or father figures, and neighborhood collective efficacy were all generally protective, meaning they were associated with lower levels and shallower slopes of predicted violent offending, but they were not more or less protective for those who experienced maltreatment. For non-violent offending, the same was true of school connection, high-quality relationships with a mother figure, and neighborhood collective efficacy, which were all generally protective. We found no evidence of a protective effect for time spent with friends, though this is likely due to measurement constraints, as simply measuring time spent with friends may have heterogeneous effects on delinquent behaviors. We found no evidence that any of these protective effects varied by sociodemographics. Conclusions This paper identifies factors that teachers, juvenile corrections officers, policymakers and others can intervene on to prevent engagement (or re-engagement) in delinquency and offending among youth and young adults who experienced maltreatment. As they are also protective for youth who have not experienced maltreatment they also inform general delinquency prevention efforts.

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Child abuse, self-control, and delinquency: A general strain perspective

Cited by 53 publications

References 77 publications

How is childhood maltreatment linked to benign envy/malicious envy? The mediating role of self‐esteem, authentic pride and hubristic pride

How is childhood maltreatment linked to benign envy/malicious envy? The mediating role of self‐esteem, authentic pride and hubristic pride

Are Adverse Childhood Experiences Associated With Deficits in Self-Control? A Test Among Two Independent Samples of Youth

Disrupting the link between maltreatment and delinquency: how school, family, and community factors can be protective

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