The dark side of social support: Understanding the role of social support, drinking behaviors and alcohol outlets for child physical abuse

Freisthler, Bridget; Holmes, Megan R.; Wolf, Jennifer Price

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.03.011

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“…As another interpretation, if punitive parenting behaviors are not censured by social supports, then these behaviors might occur more frequently (Emery et al, 2014). Recent work has found that one type of social support, social companionship (defined as having a large number of people to do social activities with), was related to more frequent use of physical abuse (Freisthler et al, 2014). The small sample size of this study precluded us from examining different types of social support.…”

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“…However, social supports can also reinforce negative parenting practice, if parents are socializing with individuals who support punitive or abusive parenting (Emery, Nguyen, & Kim, 2014; Thompson, 2014). Recent evidence suggests that where a parent's social support lives (inside or outside the neighborhood) is related to parenting behaviors (Freisthler, Holmes, & Price Wolf, 2014). Thus parenting and social relationships have a geographic dimension.…”

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An Alternative to Residential Neighborhoods: An Exploratory Study of How Activity Spaces and Perception of Neighborhood Social Processes Relate to Maladaptive Parenting

Freisthler

Thomas

Curry

2015

Child Youth Care Forum

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Background The environments where parents spend time, such as at work, at their child's school, or with friends and family, may exert a greater influence on their parenting behaviors than the residential neighborhoods where they live. These environments, termed activity spaces, provide individualized information about the where parents go, offering a more detailed understanding of the environmental risks and resources to which parents are exposed. Objective This study conducts a preliminary examination of how neighborhood context, social processes, and individual activity spaces are related to a variety of parenting practices. Methods Data were collected from 42 parents via door-to-door surveys in one neighborhood area. Survey participants provided information about punitive and non-punitive parenting practices, the locations where they conducted daily living activities, social supports, and neighborhood social processes. OLS regression procedures were used to examine covariates related to the size of parent activity spaces. Negative binomial models assessed how activity spaces were related to four punitive and five non-punitive parenting practices. Results With regards to size of parents' activity spaces, male caregivers and those with a local (within neighborhood) primary support member had larger activity spaces. Size of a parent's activity space is negatively related to use of punitive parenting, but generally not related to non-punitive parenting behaviors. Conclusions These findings suggest social workers should assess where parents spend their time and get socially isolated parents involved in activities that could result in less use of punitive parenting.

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An Alternative to Residential Neighborhoods: An Exploratory Study of How Activity Spaces and Perception of Neighborhood Social Processes Relate to Maladaptive Parenting

Freisthler

Thomas

Curry

2015

Child Youth Care Forum

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“…Moreover, research on the dark side of relating has also crossed into organizational contexts (e.g., for edited volumes, see Fox and Spector 2005;Harden Fritz and Omdahl 2006), as well as the dark side of transformational leadership (Tourish 2013). In addition to the study of clearly dark relations such as intimate partner violence (Johnson 2008) or stalking Cupach 2007b, 2014), scholars have also examined the darker side of more positive states and behaviors such as emotional intelligence (Austin et al 2007, social support (Freisthler, Holmes, andWolf 2014, technology use (Salanova, Llorens, andCifre 2013), affectionate communication (Floyd and Pauley 2011) and doctor-patient interactions (Hannawa 2011) to name just a few. Although dark side scholarship abounds, it has been more difficult to provide conceptual clarity to the concept.…”

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26. The dark underbelly of communication competence: How something good can be bad?

Olson¹

2015

Communication Competence

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This chapter traces the histories of two concepts dark interpersonal communication and communication competence before addressing the interconnected construct, the dark side of communication competence. It is argued that incompetence and darkness are not always synonyms; nor are competence and darkness necessarily always on opposite ends of a continuum. Instead the chapter discusses how competence may align with darkness in very insidious, harmful, but purposeful ways. Dimensions of dark competence are presented that help differentiate dark competence from its kin, dark communication and communication competence, providing the concept with its own theoretical space. The dark underbelly of communication competence not only furthers the theoretical and practical understanding of interpersonal communication skills and dark side scholarship, but also better captures the full essence of what it means to be a skilled communicator. A socio-ecological framework is used as a heuristic tool to approach how dark competence may be holistically examined. The framework helps draws the chapter to a close as future research ideas are proposed.

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“…Studies on child welfare outline that parental alcohol overuse is one of the major causes and risks of child neglect and abuse (Esser et al, 2016;Freisthler, Holmes, & Wolf, 2014;Laslett, Dietze, & Room, 2013;Velleman & Templeton, 2016;Wells, 2009;Widom & Hiller-Sturmhofel, 2001). This is known to have negative and long-lasting consequences for the children (Raitasalo, Holmila, Autti-Rämö , Notkola, & Tapanainen, 2015;Velleman & Templeton, 2016).…”

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Alcohol-related child maltreatment

Tamutienė

2018

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

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Aim: To increase understanding of alcohol-related child maltreatment on the basis of child protection cases in Lithuania. The study is based on a document content analysis of 203 case records of families at social risk. It identifies the prevalence of alcohol-related harm by analysing associations between types of drinkers and child maltreatment. It also maps the distribution of people who typically report this maltreatment. Both qualitative and quantitative analytical approaches are employed. Results: Child neglect was the most prevalent type of child maltreatment and was usually reported together with other types of child maltreatment. Child maltreatment was typically mentioned in the context of a caregiver's heavy drinking. In 85.7% (174) of the cases, the family had at least one problem drinker. More than one problem drinker was detected in as many as a third of all cases. At least one form of child maltreatment was detected in families with a drinking mother in 60% of the cases (w 2 ¼ 4.825, p < 0.05), with a drinking father in 36% of the cases (p > 0.05), and in 15% of the cases (p > 0.05) when there was a drinking partner in the family. The most common source of reporting by the authorities was the police (26.6%), and the most typical non-official source was the child's relatives (16.3%). Conclusions: Alcoholrelated child maltreatment needs special attention if issues of child safety in Lithuania are to be disclosed, evaluated, and responded to. Further research on this topic is needed.

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The dark side of social support: Understanding the role of social support, drinking behaviors and alcohol outlets for child physical abuse

Cited by 59 publications

References 68 publications

An Alternative to Residential Neighborhoods: An Exploratory Study of How Activity Spaces and Perception of Neighborhood Social Processes Relate to Maladaptive Parenting

An Alternative to Residential Neighborhoods: An Exploratory Study of How Activity Spaces and Perception of Neighborhood Social Processes Relate to Maladaptive Parenting

26. The dark underbelly of communication competence: How something good can be bad?

Alcohol-related child maltreatment

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