The Effects of Child Abuse and Exposure to Domestic Violence on Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems

By Carrie A. Moylan, Todd I. Herrenkohl, C. Sousa, Emiko A. Tajima, R. C. Herrenkohl, M. Russo. Journal of Family Violence, 2010

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This study examines the effects of child abuse and domestic violence exposure in childhood on adolescent internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Data for this analysis are from the Lehigh Longitudinal Study, a prospective study of 457 youth addressing outcomes of family violence and resilience in individuals and families. Results show that child abuse, domestic violence, and both in combination (i.e., dual exposure) increase a child’s risk for internalizing and externalizing outcomes in adolescence. When accounting for risk factors associated with additional stressors in the family and surrounding environment, only those children with dual exposure had an elevated risk of the tested outcomes compared to non-exposed youth. However, while there were some observable differences in the prediction of outcomes for children with dual exposure compared to those with single exposure (i.e., abuse only or exposure to domestic violence only), these difference were not statistically significant. Analyses showed that the effects of exposure for boys and girls are statistically comparable.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Predicting Adverse Childhood Experiences (2017, result): “These findings support 168 Crime & Delinquency 63(2) additional research, including meta-analytic work, indicating that exposure to domestic violence leads to internalizing and externalizing behavior problems (Evans, Davies, & DiLillo, 2008; Moylan et al., 2010).”
• Edleson Revisited: Reviewing Children’s Witnessing of Domestic Violence 15 Years Later (2016, background): “Being exposed to violence (i.e., child abuse, domestic violence, or both) was predictive of at least one of the risk outcomes (e.g., somatic complaints, anxiety, aggressive behavior, delinquency, depression, etc.) when compared to the youth not exposed to any form of violence (Moylan et al. 2010).”
• The Interrelatedness of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among High-Risk Juvenile Offenders (2016, result): “These findings support prior research, including meta-analytic work, indicating that exposure to domestic violence leads to a range of internalizing and externalizing behavior problems (Evans, Davies, & DiLillo, 2008; Moylan et al., 2010).”
• Child-to-parent Violence and Parent-to-child Violence: A Meta-analytic Review (2019, background): “…from parents as a predictor of child-to-parent violence and has overlooked the simultaneous analysis of both child-to-parent violence and parentto-child violence, and child-to-parent violence as a predictor of parent-to-child violence (Bartle-Haring, Slesnick, & Carmona, 2015; Moylan et al., 2010).”