Exploring the relationship between facets of childhood trauma and violent injury risk during adulthood: A dominance analysis study

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Child Abuse & Neglect Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107307

Faith A. McLaurin , Samuel J. West , Nicholas D. Thomson

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Abstract

Background

Research on childhood maltreatment indicates that it is positively linked with exposure to violence during childhood and later in life. Various forms of maltreatment during childhood (e.g., physical abuse, emotional neglect) are specifically linked to a greater likelihood of violent victimization and perpetration during adulthood. Similarly, adults who report experiences of childhood maltreatment are at an elevated risk of sustaining violent injuries requiring hospitalization. Despite the links between maltreatment and the risk of violence exposure, the relative importance of the forms of maltreatment as predictors remains unclear.

Objective

This study aimed to identify the most important form of child maltreatment in predicting the risk of violent injuries in adulthood.

Participants and setting

Participants (N = 367) were patients in treatment at a level-1 trauma center following a violent injury.

Methods

We compared the five forms of childhood maltreatment as predictors of the number of violent injuries sustained over the life course using a dominance analysis approach.

Results

Our initial regression analyses revealed that a negative binomial model (Nagelkerke's R² = 0.17) fit our data best due to the zero-inflated nature of our data. Dominance analyses revealed that emotional abuse (pooled Nagelkerke's R² = 0.07) completely dominated all other forms of maltreatment.

Conclusions

Emotional abuse childhood is the most important predictor of violent injury risk during adulthood after accounting for the multicollinearity shared among indicators of childhood maltreatment.

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探索童年创伤与成年期暴力伤害风险之间的关系：一项优势分析研究

关于儿童虐待的研究表明，它与儿童时期和以后生活中的暴力暴露呈正相关。儿童期各种形式的虐待（如身体虐待、情感忽视）与成年期更大的暴力受害和犯罪可能性特别相关。同样，报告童年虐待经历的成年人遭受暴力伤害需要住院治疗的风险较高。尽管虐待与暴力暴露风险之间存在联系，但虐待形式作为预测因素的相对重要性仍不清楚。目的本研究旨在确定预测成年后暴力伤害风险的最重要的儿童虐待形式。参与者和环境参与者（N = 367）是在一级创伤中心接受暴力伤害治疗的患者。方法采用优势分析方法，比较了儿童虐待的五种形式作为一生中暴力伤害数量的预测因素。我们最初的回归分析显示，负二项模型（Nagelkerke's R2 = 0.17）最适合我们的数据，因为我们的数据是零膨胀的。优势分析显示，情感虐待（汇总Nagelkerke的R2 = 0.07）完全主导了所有其他形式的虐待。结论儿童时期的情感虐待是成年期暴力伤害风险最重要的预测因子，考虑到儿童时期虐待的多重共线性。

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Child Abuse & Neglect Multiple-

CiteScore

7.40

自引率

10.40%

发文量

397

期刊介绍： Official Publication of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal, provides an international, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child abuse and neglect, with special emphasis on prevention and treatment; the scope extends further to all those aspects of life which either favor or hinder child development. While contributions will primarily be from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, law enforcement, legislature, education, and anthropology, the Journal encourages the concerned lay individual and child-oriented advocate organizations to contribute.