Child maltreatment and attachment theory

Crittenden, Patricia M.; Ainsworth, Mary D. Salter

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511665707.015

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“…In primates, abuse and neglect appear to be clearly distinct in terms of risk factors and circumstances of occurrence, suggesting that the two phenomena may have different biological functions and be regulated by different mechanisms, In humans, many parents both abuse and neglect their offspring, and most studies combine both types of maltreatment (Belsky, 1993). In the few studies in which abusive and neglectful parents were distinguished, however, important differences emerged in parental personality traits and styles of interactions with their children (Crittenden, 1981;Crittenden & Ainsworth, 1989). Anxiety and hostility are common in abusive parents and are often associated with an authoritarian parenting style.…”

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Child abuse and neglect: Usefulness of the animal data.

Maestripieri

Carroll²

1998

Psychological Bulletin

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This article reviews and critically discusses the relevance of animal data to research on child abuse and neglect. Although parental investment theory can be useful in investigating the adaptiveness, if any, of child abuse and neglect, the evolutionary approach also has some limitations. The most suitable animal models for investigating the psychosocial processes underlying child abuse and neglect are probably found among the nonhuman primates. Whereas the heuristic value of social deprivation paradigms may be limited, recent studies suggest that the spontaneous occurrence of infant maltreatment in monkeys may be the closest approximation to child maltreatment provided by nonhuman animals. The investigation of adaptive and maladaptive processes in the parenting behavior of socially living nonhuman primates can inform research on child abuse and neglect and allow investigators to conduct studies that would be difficult or impossible in humans.

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Section: Relevance To Child Maltreatmentmentioning

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Child abuse and neglect: Usefulness of the animal data.

Maestripieri

Carroll²

1998

Psychological Bulletin

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“…From an attachment perspective, neglected children who are unable to cultivate a bonding attachment relationship with their unresponsive early caregivers are more likely to develop a sense of insecurity, poor social skills, and peer problems (Crittenden and Ainsworth 1989;Howes and Eldredge, 1985). These challenges in attachment relationships could potentially lead to the formation of negative models of self, parents, and peers in relationships, and subsequently, deterioration of self-esteem and self-control.…”

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Child Neglect and Its Association With Subsequent Juvenile Drug and Alcohol Offense

Chen

Propp

deLara

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Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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This study presents empirical findings about the association between childhood neglect and adolescents' subsequent involvement with drug and alcohol related offense from a sample of 251 neglected children and their community matched control (N = 502) from a 17-year period longitudinal data set. Findings confirmed that neglected children were at greater risk to be arrested for later juvenile drug and alcohol offenses than non-neglected children. Being male, White and the presence of domestic violence also significantly contributed to elevated risks of being arrested for juvenile drug and alcohol violations for neglected children. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

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“…The social learning view is that abused children acquire the maltreatment behavior patterns through observational learning, modeling, and reinforcement (3). According to attachment theorists, what it is transmitted across generations is not behavior but a cognitive model of the parentchild relationship, which in turn affects behavior (5). Early child abuse can also result in long-term alterations in neuroendocrine development and emotion processing (6)(7)(8), and such alterations may increase the probability of displaying abusive parenting in adulthood.…”

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Early experience affects the intergenerational transmission of infant abuse in rhesus monkeys

Maestripieri

2005

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Maternal abuse of offspring in macaque monkeys shares some similarities with child maltreatment in humans, including its transmission across generations. This study used a longitudinal design and a cross-fostering experiment to investigate whether abusive parenting in rhesus macaques is transmitted from mothers to daughters and whether transmission occurs through genetic or experiential factors. Nine of 16 females who were abused by their mothers in their first month of life, regardless of whether they were reared by their biological mothers or by foster mothers, exhibited abusive parenting with their firstborn offspring, whereas none of the females reared by nonabusive mothers did. These results suggest that the intergenerational transmission of infant abuse in rhesus monkeys is the result of early experience and not genetic inheritance. The extent to which the effects of early experience on the intergenerational transmission of abusive parenting are mediated by social learning or experience-induced physiological alterations remains to be established.child maltreatment ͉ animal models ͉ cross-fostering ͉ development ͉ primates

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Child maltreatment and attachment theory

Cited by 397 publications

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Child abuse and neglect: Usefulness of the animal data.

Child abuse and neglect: Usefulness of the animal data.

Child Neglect and Its Association With Subsequent Juvenile Drug and Alcohol Offense

Early experience affects the intergenerational transmission of infant abuse in rhesus monkeys

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