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{"title":"Desistance from physical abuse in a national study of Nepal: Protective informal social control and self-compassion.","authors":"Clifton Emery, Alhassan Abdullah, Sirjana Thapa, Ko Ling Chan, Cheryl H K Chui, Angel Hor-Yan Lai, Bobo Hi-Po Lau, Christine Wekerle","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106588","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106588","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research on the conditions under which perpetrators desist from child maltreatment has seen greater attention as part of the efforts to break the cycle of maltreatment. New theoretical insights suggest that informal actions (herein protective informal social control of child maltreatment) by network members which communicate warmth, empathy with victim distress, and promote the modeling of positive parenting practices are more likely to increase maltreatment desistance. Likewise, parents' desistance from maltreatment is theorized to impact on adolescents' (victim) cognition and self-compassion.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study examined the relationship among protective informal social control of child maltreatment (protective ISC_CM) by social networks, physical abuse desistance, and adolescent self-compassion.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>A nationally representative sample of 1100 mothers and their adolescent children (aged 11-15) in Nepal was obtained.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Questionnaires were administered to mothers and their adolescent children independently. Hypotheses were tested using regression models with standard errors corrected for clustering within wards.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>More than 1 in 7 mothers reported perpetrating physical abuse in the past year, and 1 in every 5 adolescents reported being victims of physical abuse. Odds of abuse desistance increase by roughly 10 % for each act of protective ISC_CM reported by the mother. Also, odds of abuse desistance associated with higher adolescent self-compassion, and acts of protective ISC_CM associated with higher levels of adolescent self-compassion.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings suggest that interventions to boost desistance from maltreatment and break the cycle of abuse in Nepal, should focus on promoting protective informal social control actions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":" ","pages":"106588"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138479259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A comparison of reappraisal and self-compassion as an emotion regulation strategy in the context of maltreatment.","authors":"William Wooten, Sara Heyn, Ryan Herringa","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107063","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Maltreatment is a significant contributor of emotion dysregulation. Self-compassion could be an effective novel emotion regulation strategy for maltreatment. We compare self-compassion and other strategies with and without the context of maltreatment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We recruited a cross-sectional sample of 188 adult participants using Mechanical Turk (21-69 years), with and without childhood maltreatment exposure, to complete an emotion regulation task comparing reappraisal, self-compassion, and a non-instruction condition for positive and negative emotions. We examined the impact of valence and strategy on self-reported emotional intensity in response to each image, and analyzed the interaction of maltreatment exposure and severity with valence and regulation strategy.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Without factoring in maltreatment, we observed significant differences between reappraisal and self-compassion (F(1,14,117.1) = 5.716, p < 0.001) in response to emotional images. When using self-compassion, negative images evoked less intense negative emotions, and more extreme positive emotions compared to reappraisal. We also detected a significant interaction of valence, strategy, and maltreatment severity (F(2,16,818.2) = 4.24, p = 0.014). We observed differences in emotional responses for those with high levels and low levels of maltreatment severity between strategies. Self-compassion use resulted in the most consistent emotional ratings across all severity levels for negative image trials, while reappraisal and non-instructed trials minimized emotional responses as severity increased. In response to positive images, reappraisal was most effective at minimizing emotions at low levels of maltreatment severity and performed similarly to self-compassion at higher levels of severity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The current study provides early evidence that self-compassion performs effectively as an emotion regulation strategy. It performed similarly, or superior, to reappraisal in the context of maltreatment and was consistently effective across both maltreatment and abuse severity in a cross-sectional sample. We observed more extreme positive affect in those who experienced maltreatment. However, these strategies performed similarly when we did not include maltreatment, indicating similar general effectiveness. These findings have potential implications for further research regarding emotion regulation strategies and for clinical interventions as a function of maltreatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":" ","pages":"107063"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142300454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceptions of neighborhood threat and caregiver support in early adolescence: Sex differences in neural and behavioral correlates in the ABCD study.","authors":"Natalia Orendain, Aliza Ayaz, Paul J Chung, Susan Bookheimer, Adriana Galván","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106446","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adolescents, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, are at increased risk for neighborhood threat and violence exposure, which impacts behavioral and neural outcomes. Caregiver support is associated with healthy socioemotional adjustment and self-regulatory and coping behaviors; however, it remains unclear whether caregiver support, specifically, consolation, can moderate the behavioral and neural impacts of neighborhood threat.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim of this study was to examine the role of youth-perceived neighborhood threat on neural and behavioral correlates and to test the moderating potential of caregiver support. Sex differences in associations were examined.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>11,559 nine- and ten-year old youth enrolled in the multi-site Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study at baseline.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Associations were examined via linear regression models employing youth-perceived neighborhood threat and caregiver support. Regression and interaction models controlled for youth age, sex, race and ethnicity, primary caregiver's education, family income, family structure, youth-perceived school threat, and intracranial volume when examining neural outcomes. An ANOVA employing a Chi-square test and simple slopes analysis were used to identify significant interactions in moderation models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Neighborhood threat is associated with structural alterations in the left amygdala (p = .004). Meanwhile, caregiver support interacts in a dose-response fashion with neighborhood threat to attenuate its relationship with left amygdala volume (p = .008). Among youth reporting neighborhood threat, problematic behaviors were more common (p < .0001). While not significant, males reported higher rates of neighborhood threat than females (p = .267). Females reported greater levels of caregiver support (p = .017). Lastly, racial and ethnic differences in neighborhood threat and caregiver support were evident (p < .001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>While youth may not have been exposed to direct or immediate sources of threat and violence, these findings shed light on the impact of neighborhood threat perception on problematic behaviors and amygdala volume among nine- and ten-year olds. Future research should identify other culturally inclusive sources and measures of support and resiliency.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":" ","pages":"106446"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10231470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public perception of individuals who commit Child Sexual Abuse Material offences: Exploring the impact of demographic variables and cross-national differences.","authors":"Eva Langvik, Tale R Størdal, Chad M Steel, Lisbet F Christiansen, Anne Iversen","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106922","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106922","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Lay perceptions of persons who download and distribute Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is an underexplored subject. There is a need for understanding the factors that influence perceptions as the public perceptions have implications for endorsement of sex offender rehabilitation that in turn can influence the availability of treatment programs and stigma for help-seeking.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To explore public perceptions of individuals that commit child sexual abuse offences, to compare the results to those obtained in a large US sample, and to explore associations between demographic variables, general perceptions and endorsement of imprisonment and treatment for individuals that commit CSAM offences.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>An online survey were distributed in Norway in February 2023. 618 individuals responded, 76 % were female, mean age 34.99 (SD = 14.23), the majority (>70 %) had higher education, and 44 % had children.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Consistent with prior research, the public perceptions overestimated the risk of future contact offences and recidivism. Women overestimated the percentage of risk of contact offences and pedophilic interest more than men. The overestimation was significantly less in this sample compared to the US sample (d = 0.39-0.96). Those working with online child abuse had perceptions of persons committing CSAM offences that were more aligned with empirical findings. Demographic variables were only marginally associated with endorsement for treatment and imprisonment, except for having children, which was associated with endorsement of imprisonment. Perceived risk of contact offences, pedophilic preference, and assumed childhood sexual victimization were associated with perceptions of individuals committing CSAM offences as different than those committing physical sexual abuse and both endorsement of treatment and imprisonment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The perceptions of those who commit CSAM offences showed a stronger association with endorsement for treatment and imprisonment than demographic variables.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":" ","pages":"106922"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141460669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intergenerational patterns of child protection contact and offspring mental disorders from birth to age 18 years: A population-based study of Australian young people.","authors":"Emma F McKenzie, Oliver Watkeys, Melissa Mei Yin Cheung, Kimberlie Dean, Ken Zulumovski, Merran Butler, Vaughan J Carr, Melissa J Green, Stacy Tzoumakis","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While the association between child maltreatment and later mental illness is well established, less is known about whether this relationship extends intergenerationally.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate intergenerational child protection service (CPS) contact and offspring mental disorder diagnoses across four familial patterns: no CPS contact, cycle breakers (parental CPS contact only), cycle initiators (offspring CPS contact only), and cycle maintainers (both generations).</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>The study used linked administrative data from >75,000 Australian children (birth to ∼18 years) and their parents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Binary logistic regression models examined associations between intergenerational CPS patterns and offspring mental disorder diagnoses (internalizing, externalizing, neurodevelopmental disorders, self-harm/suicidal ideation) adjusting for socio-demographic indicators and parental history of mental illness.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In adjusted models, offspring categorized as cycle breakers differed from offspring from families with no CPS contact for internalizing disorders (OR = 1.52, 95% CI = 1.14-2.03) and externalizing disorders (OR = 1.96, 95% CI = 1.37-2.83). Offspring classified into initiator and maintainer families were more likely to have all disorder types compared to offspring from families with no CPS contact; the largest ORs were for externalizing disorders (initiator, OR = 5.41, 95% CI = 4.91-5.97; maintainer, OR = 8.82, 95% CI = 7.6010.23) and self-harm/suicidal ideation (initiator, OR = 5.21, 95% CI = 4.66-5.82; maintainer, OR = 7.82, 95% CI = 6.54-9.35).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Cycle breaker families and families with no CPS contact had similarly low levels of mental disorder across diagnosis type. Findings show a strong association between child maltreatment victimization and mental illness, underscoring the importance of early, targeted intervention to inform child protection and mental health policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"181 ","pages":"108303"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148898406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Childhood maltreatment and adolescent withdrawn behavior: Evidence from a multiverse analysis and a longitudinal moderated mediation model.","authors":"Shuangxi Zhang, Xuejiao Li, Sen Li, Ningning Gong","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108315","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Childhood maltreatment (CM) is a major developmental risk factor for adolescent withdrawn behavior, yet empirical estimates vary substantially, and the mechanisms underlying this association remain insufficiently tested.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to examine the robustness of the association between CM and withdrawn behavior using a multiverse approach and to test a longitudinal moderated mediation model with psychological resilience as a mediator and friendship quality as a moderator.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Data were drawn from adolescents in Hebei Province, China. Study 1 included 1976 participants. Study 2 followed 1639 adolescents from the same cohort over approximately seven months.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Study 1 employed a multiverse analysis incorporating 80 plausible analytic specifications to assess the stability of the association between CM and withdrawn behavior. Study 2 used a longitudinal moderated mediation model to test the mediating role of psychological resilience and the moderating role of friendship quality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In Study 1, CM was associated with higher levels of withdrawn behavior across all 80 analytic specifications (median β = 0.17; NSRPD = 80/80; p < .001). In Study 2, CM was related to lower psychological resilience (β = -0.07, p = .006), which in turn was related to higher subsequent withdrawn behavior (β = -0.22, p < .001). Friendship quality significantly strengthened the negative association between psychological resilience and withdrawn behavior (β = -0.05, p = .049).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The association between CM and adolescent withdrawn behavior was robust across analytic specifications. Psychological resilience mediated this association, and friendship quality strengthened the protective effect of psychological resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"181 ","pages":"108315"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148898369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Childhood adversity profiles and psychosocial recovery after suicide attempt: A cross-sectional analysis of 2023-2025 population-based surveillance data in Colombia.","authors":"Felipe Agudelo-Hernández, Stefanny Cadavid-Jimenez","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108316","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with mental disorders and suicidal behavior but less is known about their relationship with psychosocial recovery after a suicide attempt in Latin American adults.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine associations between ACE-IQ exposure and multidimensional psychosocial recovery among adults with a documented suicide attempt.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>The analytic sample included 1044 adults reported to the departmental surveillance system for suicidal behavior in Caldas, Colombia, 2023-2025.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Thirteen ACE categories were analyzed as any exposure, cumulative count, specific exposure types, and latent profiles. Outcomes included depression, persistent suicidal ideation, loneliness, subjective well-being, resilience, sense of community, continuity of care, and theory-informed composite recovery indices. Regression models adjusted for life-course group, year of attempt, marital status, educational level, number of children, sex, procedence, previous suicide attempts, and chronic disease.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Any ACE exposure was reported by 51.4% of participants. 46.8% had no reattempts, 26.0% had one, and 27.2% had two or more. ACE accumulation correlated with lower global recovery (rho = -0.41) and higher symptom (rho = 0.44). Each additional ACE category was associated with lower global recovery (B = -2.18, 95% CI [-2.49, -1.86]) and higher symptom burden (B = 1.85, 95% CI [1.52, 2.18]). Emotional abuse/bullying and emotional-relational polyadversity profiles showed the poorest recovery. Emotional abuse, neglect, and bullying were the most consistent category-level associations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Childhood adversity was associated with poorer multidimensional recovery after suicide attempt. Screening should consider cumulative burden and relational-emotional adversity patterns, not only single ACE categories.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"181 ","pages":"108316"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148889362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Still blaming parents? Describing the \"evidence base\" underpinning child neglect intervention programs.","authors":"Anne Blumenthal, Holly White-Wolfe, Margaret Thomas","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108296","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Recent efforts attempt to reframe child neglect as a consequence of ecologically layered disadvantages or \"overload.\" However, it is unclear if this ecological focus is reflected in the research base backing neglect interventions.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to describe the state of the research evidence for child neglect interventions.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>We sampled programs that were rated by the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse (CEBC) as evidence-based. Based on inclusion criteria, our final dataset comprised nine evidence-based intervention and prevention programs. We then compiled a list of all articles cited as peer-reviewed evidence for supporting the CEBC scientific rating.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted content analysis on the resulting 46 articles to determine the extent to which these programs: explicitly addressed neglect as a distinct maltreatment type, discussed the primary prevention of neglect, or measured neglect as an outcome of the respective intervention.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found that only 11% of the articles comprising the \"evidence base\" for neglect interventions addressed neglect as a distinct maltreatment type; 80% of those articles targeted mothers. Though 60% of articles referenced ecological theory, only one article addressed a structural risk factor for neglect (poverty).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Recent theorizing and empirical evidence suggest factors outside of the family are critical to the etiology of neglect. Given the prevalence of neglect, its direct harm to children, families, and society, and the economic costs of neglect, we conclude that this disconnect between accepted interventions and our best understanding of the causes of neglect is cause for alarm.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"181 ","pages":"108296"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148889324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From parental childhood physical maltreatment to preschool children's physical and relational aggression in China: A dyadic analysis of parental corporal punishment as a mediator.","authors":"Wan Ding, Jianing Mao, Chunxia Wu, Siman Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108318","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Emerging research has documented the intergenerational effect of parental childhood maltreatment on children's aggressive behaviors, including physical and relational aggression. However, existing research on mediating mechanisms has largely been confined to individual-level analyses, overlooking the dyadic dynamics between mothers and fathers.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The present study examined whether parental corporal punishment mediated the association between parents' childhood physical maltreatment (CPM) and child aggression using the actor-partner interdependence mediation model (APIMeM).</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>A sample of 309 mother-father dyads and their preschool children (aged 3-6 years) was recruited from mainland China.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were collected across two time points separated by a six-month interval. At T1, both parents completed retrospective reports of their own childhood physical maltreatment and self-reports of their current use of corporal punishment. At T2, children's physical and relational aggression were assessed via peer nominations. The proposed mediation model was tested using the APIMeM framework, with indirect effects evaluated via bootstrapping procedures.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both maternal and paternal CPM were positively associated with their own use of corporal punishment (actor effects) as well as their partner's use of corporal punishment (partner effects). In turn, greater use of corporal punishment by both parents at T1 was linked to higher levels of physical and relational aggression in children at T2.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings suggest that parental corporal punishment serves as a key dyadic mediator in the pathway from parental CPM to child aggression, highlighting the importance of considering interdependent family dynamics in understanding the intergenerational transmission of risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"181 ","pages":"108318"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148889276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adverse childhood experiences and paternal mental health during the transition to fatherhood: Findings from a cohort study of Australian men.","authors":"Mahdi Mazidi, Jacquie A Macdonald, Karen Wynter, Jasleen Chhabra, Zac Seidler, Stephen R Zubrick, Vu Vuong, Jan Kabatek, Michael J Wilson, Francis Mitrou, Vincent O Mancini","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108312","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with poorer mental health across the life course. However, research examining ACEs during the transition to parenthood has largely focused on mothers, with limited evidence on fathers.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine associations between cumulative and specific ACEs and mental health and wellbeing among first-time fathers during the first year after their child's birth.</p><p><strong>Participants and setting: </strong>Participants were 718 first-time fathers (M_age = 34.69 years; SD = 6.98 years) drawn from the Ten to Men Study, a population-representative cohort of Australian men.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Fathers retrospectively reported ACEs using the ACE-10 questionnaire and completed measures of depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), problematic alcohol use (AUDIT), and wellbeing (Personal Wellbeing Index). Generalised linear models estimated associations between exposure to ACEs and outcomes, adjusting for study wave and demographic covariates. Models also examined independent associations between specific ACE types and outcome measures.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared with fathers reporting no ACEs, those reporting 2-3 ACEs showed higher depressive and anxiety symptoms and lower wellbeing, with stronger effects observed for those reporting ≥4 ACEs (all p < .05). Cumulative ACE exposure was not significantly associated with problematic alcohol use. Childhood sexual abuse, feeling unloved, and verbal abuse were independently associated with higher depression and anxiety and poorer wellbeing, while household substance use predicted higher problematic alcohol use.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>ACEs are associated with poorer mental health and wellbeing among first-time fathers. Identifying fathers with childhood adversity histories may help inform early prevention and intervention efforts during the transition to parenthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"181 ","pages":"108312"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148889357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}