Concordance between mother and offspring retrospective reports of childhood adversity

Fisher, Helen L.; Bunn, Amanda; Jacobs, Catherine; Morán, Patricia; Bifulco, Antonia

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.10.003

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“…Nevertheless, it may be useful to conceptualize the cycle of abuse in broader terms, recognizing that even when mothers who have a history of abuse or neglect are not themselves abusive or neglectful, they may be at elevated risk of exposing their children to other perpetrators of maltreatment. A fourth limitation is that children’s experience of maltreatment was assessed via mothers who may have been prone to reporting biases [28]. However, findings from our study are consistent with findings from other studies in this issue that used official reports of children’s maltreatment.…”

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Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships Break the Intergenerational Cycle of Abuse: A Prospective Nationally Representative Cohort of Children in the United Kingdom

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et al. 2013

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Purpose To identify contextual and interpersonal factors that distinguish families in which the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment is maintained from families in which the cycle is broken. Methods The sample was composed of 1,116 families in the United Kingdom who participated in the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study. We assessed mother’s childhood history of maltreatment retrospectively with a validated and reliable interview. Prospective reports of children’s physical maltreatment were collected repeatedly up to 12 years. We compared families in which mothers but not children had experienced maltreatment with families in which both mothers and children had experienced maltreatment, and with families without maltreatment, on a range of contextual and interpersonal factors known to affect child development. Results In multivariate analyses, supportive and trusting relationships with intimate partners, high levels of maternal warmth toward children, and low levels of partner violence between adults distinguished families in which mothers but not children experienced maltreatment from families in which mothers and children experienced maltreatment. Families in which only mothers experienced maltreatment were largely similar to families in which neither generation experienced maltreatment, except that mothers belonging to the former group were more likely to have a lifetime history of depression and low levels of social support. Conclusions Safe, stable, nurturing relationships between intimate partners and between mothers and children are associated with breaking the cycle of abuse in families. Additional research is needed to determine whether these factors have a causal role in preventing the transmission of maltreatment from one generation to the next.

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Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships Break the Intergenerational Cycle of Abuse: A Prospective Nationally Representative Cohort of Children in the United Kingdom

Jaffee

Bowes

Ouellet‐Morin

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“…Combining ratings of 4 and 5 is also consistent with previous studies using the CECA, which have collapsed comparable scale values to indicate presence of ‘severe’ abuse (e.g., Bifulco, Brown, & Harris, 1994; Bifulco et al, 1997; Bifulco, Brown, Moran, Ball, & Campbell, 1998; Fisher, Bunn, Jacobs, Moran, & Bifulco, 2011). …”

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Measuring adolescents' exposure to victimization: The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study

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This paper presents mutlilevel findings on adolescents’ victimization exposure from a large longitudinal cohort of twins. Data were obtained from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, an epidemiological study of 2,232 children (1,116 twin pairs) followed to 18 years of age (with 93% retention). To assess adolescent victimization we combined best practices in survey research on victimization with optimal approaches to measuring life stress and traumatic experiences, and introduce a reliable system for coding severe victimization. One in three children experienced at least one type of severe victimization during adolescence (crime victimization, peer/sibling victimization, internet/mobile phone victimization, sexual victimization, family violence, maltreatment, or neglect), and most types of victimization were more prevalent amongst children from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Exposure to multiple victimization types was common, as was re-victimization; over half of those physically maltreated in childhood were also exposed to severe physical violence in adolescence. Biometric twin analyses revealed that environmental factors had the greatest influence on most types of victimization, while severe physical maltreatment from caregivers during adolescence was predominantly influenced by heritable factors. The findings from this study showcase how distinct levels of victimization measurement can be harmonized in large-scale studies of health and development.

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“…It was likely that recall errors and unwillingness to disclose adverse experiences may have resulted in underestimating the prevalence (Fisher, Bunn, Jacobs, Moran, & Bifulco, 2011; Shaffer, Huston, & Egeland, 2008; Widom & Shepard, 1996). For example, sexual abuse is often underreported by Japanese respondents due to the stigma and embarrassment attached to sexual victimization (Dussich, 2001).…”

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Childhood Adversities and Adult Use of Potentially Injurious Physical Discipline in Japan

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Using data derived from the World Mental Health Japan Survey (n = 1,186), this study examined the intergenerational continuity of potentially injurious physical discipline of children in a community sample from Japan with a special focus on the confounding effects of 11 other types of childhood adversities (CAs) and the intervening effects of mental disorders and socioeconomic status. Bivariate analyses revealed that having experienced physical discipline as children and five other CAs was significantly associated with the use of physical discipline as parents in the Japanese community examined. However, childhood physical discipline was the only CA that remained significant after adjusting for the other CAs. The association of childhood physical discipline with adult perpetration was independent of the respondents’ mental disorders and household income. No significant gender differences were found in the associations between childhood physical discipline and adult perpetration. The current study on Japan provided empirical support consistent with results found in other countries regarding the intergenerational transmission of child physical abuse.

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Concordance between mother and offspring retrospective reports of childhood adversity

Cited by 36 publications

References 19 publications

Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships Break the Intergenerational Cycle of Abuse: A Prospective Nationally Representative Cohort of Children in the United Kingdom

Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships Break the Intergenerational Cycle of Abuse: A Prospective Nationally Representative Cohort of Children in the United Kingdom

Measuring adolescents' exposure to victimization: The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study

Childhood Adversities and Adult Use of Potentially Injurious Physical Discipline in Japan

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