Adverse Childhood Experience Chronicity and Timing: Impacts on Harsh and Nurturing Parenting in UK Black and Minority Ethnic Parents.

IF 2 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES
Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma Pub Date : 2025-03-29 eCollection Date: 2025-09-01 DOI:10.1007/s40653-025-00704-2
Itunu Ogundiyun, Laura Katus
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are a range of traumatic events, primarily including personal abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction, which frequently are associated with maladaptive consequences into adulthood. As such, ACEs also have the potential to adversely affect an individual's response to their own children once they become a parent. While members of minority ethnic groups are at a higher risk of experiencing ACEs, research on how this affects parenting outcomes is limited. This study examines ACE exposure in a cohort of N = 64 Black and minority ethnic parents in the UK. We found that ACEs were positively associated with parents self-reported harsh parenting, and negatively associated with nurturing parenting. Examining ACE timing, exposure during middle childhood, but not early or late childhood or adolescence, was associated of both harsh and nurturing parenting. Examining the differential impact of ACE chronicity (i.e., prolonged exposure) and ACE frequency (i.e., number of ACEs), harsh parenting was significantly associated with ACE chronicity, whereas nurturing parenting was linked to ACE frequency. Mediation analyses showed a partial mediation of parental education for the link between ACE frequency and harsh and nurturing parenting outcomes. Our results contribute to a growing body of research highlighting the intricate interplay between early life adversity and parenting behaviours within minority ethnic communities. Findings underscore the need for targeted interventions and support systems aimed at breaking the cycle of ACEs, promoting healthier parenting practices, and ultimately fostering improved outcomes for both parents and their children in these communities. Future research should delve deeper into the specific mechanisms through which ACEs influence parenting behaviours and explore culturally sensitive approaches to mitigate their impact on minority ethnic parents.

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不良童年经历的慢性和时间:对英国黑人和少数民族父母严厉和养育的影响。
不良童年经历(ace)是一系列创伤性事件,主要包括个人虐待、忽视和家庭功能障碍,这些通常与成年后的适应不良后果有关。因此,ace也有可能对一个人在成为父母后对自己孩子的反应产生不利影响。虽然少数民族成员经历ace的风险更高,但关于这如何影响育儿结果的研究有限。这项研究调查了英国一组N = 64名黑人和少数族裔父母的ACE暴露情况。我们发现,ace与父母自我报告的严厉父母呈正相关,与养育父母负相关。检查ACE的时间,暴露在童年中期,而不是早期或晚期的童年或青春期,严厉和养育的父母都有关系。通过对ACE慢性性(即暴露时间延长)和ACE频率(即ACE次数)的差异影响的研究,严厉的养育方式与ACE慢性性显著相关,而养育方式则与ACE频率相关。中介分析显示,父母教育对ACE频率与严厉和养育的父母结果之间的联系起部分中介作用。我们的研究结果为越来越多的研究做出了贡献,这些研究突出了少数民族社区中早期生活逆境与父母行为之间复杂的相互作用。研究结果强调了有针对性的干预和支持系统的必要性,旨在打破ace的恶性循环,促进更健康的育儿实践,最终为这些社区的父母和孩子带来更好的结果。未来的研究应该更深入地探讨ace影响父母行为的具体机制,并探索文化敏感的方法来减轻它们对少数民族父母的影响。
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期刊介绍: Underpinned by a biopsychosocial approach, the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma presents original research and prevention and treatment strategies for understanding and dealing with symptoms and disorders related to the psychological effects of trauma experienced by children and adolescents during childhood and where the impact of these experiences continues into adulthood. The journal also examines intervention models directed toward the individual, family, and community, new theoretical models and approaches, and public policy proposals and innovations. In addition, the journal promotes rigorous investigation and debate on the human capacity for agency, resilience and longer-term healing in the face of child and adolescent trauma. With a multidisciplinary approach that draws input from the psychological, medical, social work, sociological, public health, legal and education fields, the journal features research, intervention approaches and evidence-based programs, theoretical articles, specific review articles, brief reports and case studies, and commentaries on current and/or controversial topics. The journal also encourages submissions from less heard voices, for example in terms of geography, minority status or service user perspectives. Among the topics examined in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma: The effects of childhood maltreatment Loss, natural disasters, and political conflict Exposure to or victimization from family or community violence Racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation or class discrimination Physical injury, diseases, and painful or debilitating medical treatments The impact of poverty, social deprivation and inequality Barriers and facilitators on pathways to recovery The Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma is an important resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and academics whose work is centered on children exposed to traumatic events and adults exposed to traumatic events as children.
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