Maternal experiences of childhood abuse and intimate partner violence: Psychopathology and functional impairment in clinical children and adolescents☆
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Participants
The sample included 547 children and adolescents, between 8 and 17 years of age, and their parents, who were recruited from psychiatric outpatient settings of the public health network in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Spain). Families from 27 municipalities of this geographic area were included, representing populations living in north-eastern Spain. Subjects were referred by their general practitioner, regardless of socioeconomic status. All the participants were included in this study
Results
Demographic characteristics of the participants are shown in Table 1. Participants were classified into the 4 groups according to life-time maternal violence experiences, based on the mothers’ and children's reports to the Schedule for Risk Factors (SRF). Of the 547 mothers participating in this study, it was reported that 77% (n = 422) were not exposed to any experience of violence, 8.96% (n = 49) had suffered CA only, 10.6% (n = 58) IPV only and 3.29% (n = 18) had both experiences. Considering the
Discussion
In this study the independent effects of mothers’ CA and IPV on their children's psychopathological problems showed few significant results and partially confirm the study's hypotheses; maternal CA was related to children's disruptive disorders and IPV was associated with an increase of externalizing behavior problems. Results also indicated that physical punishment of children moderated the effects of IPV on children's internalizing behavior problems. Moreover, the IPV had effects, either
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This work was supported by grant SEJ2005-01786 from Ministry of Education and Science (Spain).