Risk factor models for adolescent verbal and physical aggression toward mothers

By L. Pagani, Richard E. Tremblay, Dan Nagin, M. Zoccolillo, F. Vitaro, P. McDuff. 2004

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Contributing to the family violence and conflict literature, we examine prospective and concurrent risk factors associated with verbal and physical aggression toward mothers by 15/16 year-old adolescent sons and daughters. Data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Kindergarten Children is used to examine the influence of socioeconomic factors, inherent individual and family environment factors, and prospective and concurrent parenting process factors as predictors of adolescent aggression (in the last 6 months). A childhood behavioural pattern characterised by physical aggression generated the highest risk of adolescent-directed verbal and physical aggression toward mothers. Aggressive parental punishment in the last 6 months significantly predicted aggression toward mothers. A childhood life-course of violence seems to culminate in verbal and physical aggression toward mothers during adolescence. Given this building-up process from childhood, harsh parental punishment of the adolescent seems to only increase the odds of adolescent aggression. No sex differences were observed.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Health

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4. Peter M. Bentler
5. J. Walsh
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Citations in the corpus

• Child-to-parent Violence and Parent-to-child Violence: A Meta-analytic Review (2019, background): “…1985); in Canada for a 6-month period the prevalence rate ranged from 12% to 60% for physical aggression and verbal aggression, respectively (Pagani et al., 2004, 2009); in Spain, where most field studies have been performed (Moulds & Day, 2017), the prevalence rate ranged from 21% for…”
• Child–Parent Violence: An Empirical Analysis of Offender, Victim, and Event Characteristics in a National Sample of Reported Incidents (2007, background): “Further, existing studies havemissed important segments of the at-risk population by either not distinguishing step-parents or neglecting them altogether (McCloskey and Lichter 2003), excluding fathers from the victim population (Pagani et al. 2004), excluding females from the offender population (B”
• Risk Factors for Child-to-Parent Violence (2013, background): “According to Pagani et al. (2004) and Gallagher (2008), gender differences in parent abuse depend on the kind of research methodology used with clinical, anecdotal and forensic studies finding more son perpetrators, and epidemiological studies finding no sex differences.”
• The Clinical and Adaptive Features of Young Offenders with Histories of Child-Parent Violence (2010, background): “…has recently begun to take a closer look at this destructive phenomenon (Boxer et al. 2009; Edenborough et al. 2008; Kennair and Mellor 2007; Pagani et al. 2004, 2009; Stewart et al. 2007; Ulman and Straus 2003; Walsh and Krienert T. D. Kennedy :W. A. Edmonds Applied Research Center, Nova…”
• The Contribution of Family Relationships to Child-to-Parent Violence (2016, background): “Parent abuse occurs when parents are excessively controlling or authoritarian (Calvete et al. 2011; Gallagher 2004; Pagani et al. 2004).”