Disentangling the mental health impact of child abuse and neglect.

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dc.contributor.authorCecil, Charlotte ; Viding, Essi ; Fearon, R. M. Pasco ; Glass, Danya ; McCrory, Eamon J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-02T18:10:09Z
dc.date.available2020-06-02T18:10:09Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIt is unclear whether maltreatment types exert common or specific effects on mental health. In the current study, we aimed to systematically characterize the unique, shared and cumulative effects of maltreatment types on psychiatric symptoms, using data drawn from a community sample of high-risk youth (n = 204, M = 18.85). Analyses controlled for a range of potentially confounding variables, including socio-demographic variables, neighbourhood deprivation and levels of community violence exposure. Outcome measures included multi-informant reports of internalizing difficulties, as well as data on externalizing problems and trauma-related symptoms. We found that (i) consistent with previous studies, maltreatment types were highly interrelated and frequently co-occurred; (ii) symptom severity linearly increased with the number of maltreatment types experienced (more so for self-report vs informant ratings); and (iii) while most forms of maltreatment were significantly associated with mental health outcomes when examined individually, few unique effects were observed when modelling maltreatment types simultaneously, pointing to an important role of shared variance in driving maltreatment effects on mental health. Emotional abuse emerged as the main independent predictor of psychiatric symptomatology – over and above other maltreatment types – and this effect was comparable for males and females (i.e. no significant interaction with sex). Findings contribute to a better understanding of heterogeneity in individual responses to maltreatment. (Author Abstracten_US
dc.identifier.citationCecil, Charlotte ; Viding, Essi ; Fearon, R. M. Pasco ; Glass, Danya ; McCrory, Eamon J. (2017) Disentangling the mental health impact of child abuse and neglect. Child Abuse and Neglect, 63, 106-119.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/files/62496303/Cecil_etal_2017_MTtypes_CA_N_SelfArchiving.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/4748
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherChild Abuse & Neglecten_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectpsychological effectsen_US
dc.subjectlong term effectsen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectUnited Kingdomen_US
dc.titleDisentangling the mental health impact of child abuse and neglect.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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