Individual, Family, and Culture Level Contributions to Child Physical Abuse and Neglect: A Longitudinal Study in Nine Countries

dc.contributor.authorLansford, J. E., Godwin, J., Tirado, L. M. U., Zelli, A., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., ... & Di Giunta, L.
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-24T18:17:45Z
dc.date.available2016-10-24T18:17:45Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis study advances understanding of predictors of child abuse and neglect at multiple levels of influence. Mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,432 families, M age of children = 8.29 years) were interviewed annually in three waves in 13 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). Multilevel models were estimated to examine predictors of (a) within-family differences across the three time points, (b) between-family within-culture differences, and (c) between-cultural group differences in mothers’ and fathers’ reports of corporal punishment and children’s reports of their parents’ neglect. These analyses addressed to what extent mothers’ and fathers’ use of corporal punishment and children’s perceptions of their parents’ neglect were predicted by parents’ belief in the necessity of using corporal punishment, parents’ perception of the normativeness of corporal punishment in their community, parents’ progressive parenting attitudes, parents’ endorsement of aggression, parents’ education, children’s externalizing problems, and children’s internalizing problems at each of the three levels. Individual-level predictors (especially child externalizing behaviors) as well as cultural-level predictors (especially normativeness of corporal punishment in the community) predicted corporal punishment and neglect. Findings are framed in an international context that considers how abuse and neglect are defined by the global community and how countries have attempted to prevent abuse and neglect. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationLansford, J. E., Godwin, J., Tirado, L. M. U., Zelli, A., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., ... & Di Giunta, L. (2015). Individual, family, and culture level contributions to child physical abuse and neglect: a longitudinal study in nine countries. Development and psychopathology, 27(4pt2), 1417-1428.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4839471/pdf/nihms697900.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3029
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDevelopment and psychopathologyen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectphysical abuseen_US
dc.subjectrisk factorsen_US
dc.subjectparentingen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.titleIndividual, Family, and Culture Level Contributions to Child Physical Abuse and Neglect: A Longitudinal Study in Nine Countriesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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