Peer relations in maltreated children

Mueller, Edward; Silverman, Nancy

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511665707.018

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“…However, the quality of the experience was not positive for all children (e.g., 14% had support providers who were neglectful or endangering, 27% had very little connection to a network of support). This evidence supports previous research that high risk children's social support may mirror that of their parents (Mueller & Silverman, 1989;Wolfe, 1985), underscoring the isolation experienced by many families living in poverty.…”

Section: Social Support In Early Childhoodsupporting

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Direct Social Support for Young High Risk Children: Relations with Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes across Time

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Egeland

Sroufe

2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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This study is unique in addressing developmental correlates of direct social support for young children in a high risk sample, in contrast to previous studies addressing social support for caregivers. Participants were drawn from a prospective, longitudinal study of at-risk children. Social support was rated from maternal interviews throughout early childhood. Support from the mother was assessed from mother-child observations. Outcomes included internalizing and externalizing behavior problems measured from first through tenth grades. The most common support providers were biological fathers, followed by grandparents and other providers. Using multilevel modeling, higher quantity, higher quality, and lower disruption of support predicted lower starting levels of behavior problems, controlling for support from the mother. Disruption was associated with change in slope. Gender differences were found for externalizing behavior intercepts. Social support provides a promotive factor for young high risk children. Implications include involving children's social support providers in prevention and intervention programs.

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Section: Social Support In Early Childhoodsupporting

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Direct Social Support for Young High Risk Children: Relations with Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes across Time

Appleyard

Egeland

Sroufe

2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…Children who are neglected may construct models of relationships characterized by a lack of responsiveness from others. They may withdraw from social relationships Mueller & Silverman, 1989), or alternatively, because they have had little experience in truly reciprocal relationships, they may engage in poorly controlled behavior that results in exclusion from relationships with peers.…”

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“…Among children who experienced failure to provide, however, one might expect a different pattern of adjustment. It seems likely that these children, whose caregivers failed to provide them with adequate food, shelter, clothing, medical care, or other essentials of life, might develop models of themselves as ineffective and of others as unavailable, and they may withdraw from social relationships Mueller & Silverman, 1989). Also, among maltreated children, those who have experienced failure to provide are the most likely to suffer from poor nutrition, and this may affect their social behavior.…”

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“…A growing body of literature has documented the negative developmental sequelae of abuse and neglect in childhood. Maltreated children have been reported to have less satisfactory relationships with peers and poorer selfconcepts as compared with children who have not been maltreated (Cicchetti, Lynch, Shonk, & Manly, 1992;Mueller & Silverman, 1989;Vondra, Barnett, & Cicchetti, 1989). An important goal for future research is to specify more precisely the links between children's experiences of maltreatment and their later development.…”

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Peer Relationships and Self‐Esteem among Children Who Have Been Maltreated

Bolger

Patterson

Kupersmidt³

1998

Child Development

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A prospective longitudinal design was employed to assess risks associated with maltreatment in a representative community sample of 107 maltreated children and an equal number of nonmaltreated comparison children. Heightened difficulties in peer relationships and self-esteem were associated with greater severity and chronicity of maltreatment. For example, children who experienced chronic maltreatment were less well-liked by peers. Type of maltreatment was also related to specific aspects of children's adjustment. For instance, sexual abuse predicted low self-esteem, but not problems in peer relationships. Emotional maltreatment, on the other hand, was related to difficulties in peer relationships, but not to low self-esteem. Thus, the best predictions of specific aspects of children's adjustment were provided by considering timing, type, and severity of maltreatment. For some groups of maltreated children, having a good friend was associated with improvement over time in self-esteem.

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“…These illustrations suggest ute to problems in relationships with peers, significant difficulties among maltreated There is increasing evidence that mal-children in interpreting the emotional expetreated children experience difficulties in re-rience of others and responding in an aplating successfully with peers during the propriate manner. Not only may maltreated preschool and school age years (Cicchetti et children misperceive emotional reactions al., 1992;Mueller &Silverman, 1989). Mal-from others, but also such misinterpretatreated children, particularly physically tions may result in emotional reactions in abused children, have been found to exhibit themselves that appear quite discrepant higher levels of verbal and physical aggres-with the social demands of interpersonal insion (Dodge, Bates, & Pettit, 1990;George teraction.…”

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The role of child maltreatment in early deviations in cognitive and affective processing abilities and later peer relationship problems

1995

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Despite considerable research demonstrating the adverse consequences of child maltreatment, including a heightened risk for adaptational failures and psychopathology, longitudinal evaluations of processes contributing to negative outcomes have been limited. Problems in peer relations constitute a critical developmental risk for future maladaptation among maltreated children, transferring relationship disturbance from the family to new interpersonal contexts. The linkages of a history of child maltreatment to early deviations in cognitive/affective processes, which subsequently lead to difficulties in peer relations were examined. Specifically, in a sample of 46 maltreated and 43 nonmaltreated low-income children, laboratory assessments of affect understanding and cognitive control functioning were conducted, followed by later peer and teacher assessments of peer relations in the school setting. Maltreated children were shown to evidence early deviations in their understanding of negative affect as well as immaturity in their cognitive controls. Maltreated children also were shown to have lower social effectiveness and higher levels of undercontrolled and aggressive behavior in the school setting. Physically abused children were found to be more rejected by their peers. Cognitive control functioning partially mediated the effect of maltreatment on later social effectiveness. Negative affect understanding mediated both the relation of maltreatment on later dysregulated behavior in the peer setting and the effect of physical abuse on later rejection by peers. The results are discussed in terms of their support for organizational/transactional theory and the implications they have for prevention and intervention.

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Peer relations in maltreated children

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Direct Social Support for Young High Risk Children: Relations with Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes across Time

Direct Social Support for Young High Risk Children: Relations with Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes across Time

Peer Relationships and Self‐Esteem among Children Who Have Been Maltreated

The role of child maltreatment in early deviations in cognitive and affective processing abilities and later peer relationship problems

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