Child maltreatment types and risk behaviors: Associations with attachment style and emotion regulation dimensions

Oshri, Assaf; Sutton, Tara E.; Clay-Warner, Jody; Miller, Joshua D.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.015

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“…A growing body of literature has demonstrated that the stress associated with CM and sexual abuse during childhood generates a cascade of vulnerabilities through insecure attachment on psychological and relational functioning and engagement in risk behaviors (Muller et al, 2012;Oshri et al, 2015;Owen et al, 2011). The present study showed that this conclusion also holds for SRBs during adolescence.…”

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“…The study conducted by Oshri et al (2015) is an exception. They examined the relationships between various forms of CM and condom use and investigated whether anxious and avoidant attachment mediated the relationships.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It has been reported that attachment insecurity, characterized by high levels of avoidance or anxiety, is a pathway between CM and a wide range of outcomes, such as risk behaviors (e.g., drug and alcohol use) (Oshri, Sutton, Clay-Warner, & Miller, 2015) and psychological (Muller, Thornback, & Bedi, 2012) and relationship functioning (Owen, Quirk, & Manthos, 2011). Although anxious and avoidant attachment have been proposed as possible pathways between CM and SRBs (Briere, 2002;Cicchetti & Toth, 2005), they have not been empirically investigated with mediation models.…”

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Pathways Linking Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors: The Role of Attachment Security

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Lavoie

Hébert

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The Journal of Sex Research

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Previous research has shown an association between child maltreatment (sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect or witnessing interparental violence) and adolescent sexual risk behaviors. The mechanisms explaining this association are not well understood but attachment theory could provide further insight into them. This study examined the relationships between child maltreatment and sexual risk behaviors and investigated anxious and avoidant attachment as mediators. The sample comprised 1,900 sexually active adolescents (13 to 17 years old; 60.8% girls) attending Quebec high schools. The results of path analyses indicated that neglect was associated with a higher number of sexual partners, casual sexual behavior, and being younger at first intercourse. Anxious attachment mediated the relation between neglect and number of sexual partners, whereas avoidant attachment explained the relation between neglect and number of sexual partners, casual sexual behavior, and age at first intercourse (for boys only). Sexual abuse was directly associated with all three sexual risk behaviors. Neither anxious attachment nor avoidant attachment mediated these associations. Youth with a history of neglect and sexual abuse represent a vulnerable population that is likely to engage in sexual risk behaviors. Interventions designed to induce a positive change in attachment security may reduce sexual risk behaviors among victims of neglect.

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Pathways Linking Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors: The Role of Attachment Security

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Hébert

et al. 2017

The Journal of Sex Research

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“…Numerous studies demonstrate that abused and neglected children tend to display more impulsive-like behaviors than nonmaltreated children (e.g., Manly, Kim, Rogosch, & Cicchetti, 2001; Oshri, Rogosch, Burnette, & Cicchetti, 2011; Oshri, Sutton, Clay-Warner, & Miller, 2015; Sujan, Humphreys, Ray, & Lee, 2014; Wanklyn, Day, Hart, & Girard, 2012). Parents in maltreating families are less likely to scaffold and construct strategies for their children's regulation of behaviors and emotions during times of distress, which may contribute to deficits in impulse control (Kim, Cicchetti, Rogosch, & Manly, 2009).…”

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Child maltreatment, impulsivity, and antisocial behavior in African American children: Moderation effects from a cumulative dopaminergic gene index

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A model examining the effects of an increasing number of maltreatment subtypes experienced on antisocial behavior, as mediated by impulsivity and moderated by a polygenic index of dopaminergic genotypes, was investigated. An African American sample of children (N = 1012, M age = 10.07) with and without maltreatment histories participated. Indicators of aggression, delinquency, and disruptive peer behavior were obtained from peer and counselor rated measures to form a latent variable of antisocial behavior; impulsivity was assessed by counselor report. Five genotypes in four dopaminergic genes (DRD4, DRD2, DAT1, and COMT) conferring heightened environmental sensitivity were combined into one polygenic index. Using SEM, a first-stage, moderated-mediation model was evaluated. Age and sex were entered as covariates, both as main effects and in interaction with maltreatment and the gene index. The model had excellent fit: χ2(32, N =1012) = 86..51, p<0.001; CFI = 0.982; TLI = 0.977; RMSEA = 0.041; SRMR = 0.022. The effect of maltreatment subtypes on antisocial behavior was partially mediated by impulsivity (β= 0.173, p<0.001), and these relations were moderated by the number of differentiating dopaminergic genotypes. Specifically, a significant GxE interaction (b = 0.016, p = 0.013) indicated that the relation between maltreatment and impulsivity was stronger as children evinced more differentiating genotypes, thereby strengthening the mediational effect of impulsivity on antisocial behavior. These findings elucidate the manner by which maltreated children develop early signs of antisocial behavior, and the genetic mechanisms involved in greater vulnerability for maladaptation in impulse-control within context of child maltreatment.

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“…By re-evaluating these emotions in different situations, they attempt to create a healthy emotional lifestyle and reduce their mental and physical problems and thus achieving emotional balance (Bardeen & Fergus, 2014;Isasi, Ostrovsky, & Wills, 2013). Besides, defects and disorders in regulating emotions are correlated with the vulnerability to suffer from depression (Oshri, Sutton, Clay-Warner, & Miller, 2015) which causes many mental harms (Rutherford, Wallace, Laurent, & Mayes, 2015) and can be the beginning of many more personal problems and the anxiety of well-being (Gross & Thompson, 2007). Apparently, teaching emotion regulation can help these people to use their emotions appropriately and in return to use these trainings to encounter social hardships and improve their social relationships, psychological health, and evaluate their lives to be desirable and satisfactory, in which they can keep a balance between positive and negative emotions.…”

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Improvement of Subjective Well-Being in Students With Physical Disability: Mental Rehabilitation Based on Teaching Emotion Regulation Skills

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Asmari

Karimi

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Child maltreatment types and risk behaviors: Associations with attachment style and emotion regulation dimensions

Cited by 146 publications

References 34 publications

Pathways Linking Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors: The Role of Attachment Security

Pathways Linking Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors: The Role of Attachment Security

Child maltreatment, impulsivity, and antisocial behavior in African American children: Moderation effects from a cumulative dopaminergic gene index

Improvement of Subjective Well-Being in Students With Physical Disability: Mental Rehabilitation Based on Teaching Emotion Regulation Skills

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