Journal article
Child Maltreatment and Physical Victimization: Does Heavy Drinking Mediate the Relationship?
Child maltreatment, v 23(3), pp 234-243
01 Aug 2018
PMID: 29347837
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Abstract
Past studies examining the child maltreatment (CM)/victimization pathway have been limited by their focus on sexual victimization, narrow windows of assessment, and failure to examine gender differences. In the current study, we sought to examine (1) the impact of CM on physical victimization (PV) trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood and (2) the extent to which heavy drinking mediated the relationship between CM and later PV. Using three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we found that CM was associated with a 69% greater odds of later PV for both genders, after the inclusion of control variables, and that the risk continued into adulthood. Further, heavy drinking was found to mediate the CM/victimization pathway at Wave I, but not at later waves. When mediation was examined separately for men and women, support for mediation was found for men and women. The current study suggests that CM represents a liability for interpersonal violence for both genders and highlights the importance of looking at victimization across time.
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- Title
- Child Maltreatment and Physical Victimization: Does Heavy Drinking Mediate the Relationship?
- Creators
- Kathryn Z. Smith - Wayne State UniversityPhilip H. Smith - CUNY School of LawLindsay M. Oberleitner - Yale UniversityEmily R. Grekin - Wayne State UniversitySherry A. McKee - Yale University
- Publication Details
- Child maltreatment, v 23(3), pp 234-243
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- K12 DA031050 / Yale B.I.R.C.W.H. Scholar Program on Women's Health and Addictive Behaviors (NIDA, NIAAA) P50 DA033945 / NIDA; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), Office of the Director Food and Drug Administration (FDA); United States Department of Health & Human Services; US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) T32-DA007294-24 / National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000438060100004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85049879306
- Other Identifier
- 991022031023804721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Family Studies
- Social Work