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Early parenting: The roles of maltreatment, trauma symptoms, and future expectations

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: The psychosocial determinants of early parenting are still not well understood. The current study used data on 115 girls in the Capella Project, who were followed longitudinally for the first 18 years of life. Potential predictors of early parenting assessed were child maltreatment, trauma symptoms, and girls' expectations for their socioeconomic outcomes. Cox regression survival analyses were conducted to predict time to the birth of first child. Significant unique predictors of early parenting included neglect, anxiety, low depression, and low expectations of going to college. Practice and research implications of these findings include the importance of neglect for risk of early parenting, the importance of ongoing trauma symptoms in youth, and the potentially protective influence of expectations of going to college.

Source: Journal of Adolescence

DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.08.003

Authors: Richard Thompson, Elizabeth C. Neilson

Institutions: Juvenile Protective Association, University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Child Abuse and Trauma

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, National Institute on Drug Abuse