Long-term effects of grandparental child neglect on adult grandchildren's mental health: A three-generation study

IF 3.6 2区医学 Q1 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Ssm-Population Health Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI:10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101712

Emre Sarı , Mikko Moilanen , Maarten Lindeboom

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Abstract

Child neglect is a significant social problem with severe consequences for individuals and society. This study explores how intergenerational transmission of grandparental child neglect affects grandchildren's mental health in adulthood. We utilize a three-generational dataset from the Tromsø Study and estimate a linear probability model to find the distinct roles of both maternal and paternal grandparents. We test the additive risk hypothesis for continuous, intergenerational effects of child neglect in both the maternal and paternal lineages. Furthermore, we use structural equation modeling to test how sequential exposures to neglect across generations ultimately bear on adult mental health outcomes. Our results confirm the additive risk hypothesis but only for maternal grandparents: our findings show that only maternal parents' neglectful parenting is associated with an increased probability of depression in their grandchildren, conditional on whether their parents neglected them. These results contribute to research on intergenerational transmission by the finding that additive risks of child maltreatment flow down generations mainly through maternal lineages.

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祖父母忽视子女对成年孙辈心理健康的长期影响：三代人研究

忽视儿童是一个严重的社会问题，会给个人和社会带来严重后果。本研究探讨了祖父母忽视儿童的代际传递如何影响孙辈成年后的心理健康。我们利用特罗姆瑟研究（Tromsø Study）中的三代数据集，通过估计线性概率模型来发现祖父母和外祖父母的不同作用。我们检验了母系和父系忽视儿童的连续、代际影响的叠加风险假设。此外，我们还使用结构方程模型来检验几代人连续遭受忽视的情况最终如何影响成人的心理健康结果。我们的结果证实了叠加风险假说，但只针对母系祖父母：我们的研究结果表明，只有母系父母的疏忽养育才会增加孙辈患抑郁症的概率，条件是他们的父母是否疏忽了他们。虐待儿童的叠加风险主要通过母系血统代代相传，这一研究结果为代际传递研究做出了贡献。

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Ssm-Population Health PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

CiteScore

6.50

自引率

2.10%

发文量

298

审稿时长

101 days

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