Risk factors in child maltreatment: A meta-analytic review of the literature.

By S. Stith, Ting Liu, L. Davies, E. L. Boykin, Meagan C. Alder, Jennifer M. Harris, A. Som, Marya C. McPherson, Jemeg Dees. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health

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Unraveling the link between maltreatment and juvenile antisocial behavior: A meta-analysis of prospective longitudinal studies (2017, background): “Meta-analyses of risk factors for child maltreatment (Stith et al., 2009) and juvenile antisocial behavior (Assink et al., 2015; Derzon, 2010) concur that family configuration, family size, family stress, parent-child relationship, child rearing skills, parental psychopathology, and child…”
Housing Insecurity, Maternal Stress, and Child Maltreatment: An Application of the Family Stress Model (2015, background): “These aspects of parental well-being have been consistently linked to increased risk of child maltreatment ðStith et al. 2009Þ. conceptual framework The process through which economic factors produce maladaptive outcomes is often explained using the family stress model.”
Risk and protective factors for child neglect during early childhood: A cross-study comparison (2011, methodology): “As a further guide for considering specific measurement constructs, the researchers relied upona recently completed systematic reviewof the literature onneglect risk and protective factors (Slack, Berger, Yang, & Gjertson, 2010), and a recently published meta-analysis on risk factors for child maltr”
Maternal Dysphoric Mood, Stress, and Parenting Practices in Mothers of Head Start Preschoolers: The Role of Experiential Avoidance (2011, background): “Furthermore, in cases of seriously impaired parenting, such as neglect and abuse, maternal depression and parenting stress have often been implicated as risk factors (see Stith et al, 2009 , for review).”
Child welfare involvement and contexts of poverty: The role of parental adversities, social networks, and social services (2017, background): “Poverty may also, or instead, contribute to harsher or less supportive parenting practices by increasing parental stress and family conflict, which are risk factors for child maltreatment (Stith et al., 2009).”
The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations (2024, background): “Children who grow up ex periencing more family discord 98,99 , who are born to adolescent mothers 95 , and who grow up in singleparent households 99 are more likely to experience multiple childhood adversities.”
Parental Burnout: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter? (2019, background): “Beyond their contribution to clinical psychological science, our results are of scientific interest for several related fields: (a) developmental psychopathology, because this research suggests that parental burnout is most likely an important mediator (and perhaps moderator) of the effect of identi”
Economic Determinants and Consequences of Child Maltreatment (2011, positive): “Low-income and poor families have consistently been found to have increased probabilities of both actual child maltreatment and involvement with child welfare services (Gil, 1970; Pelton, 1981, 1994; Russell & Trainor, 1984; Sedlak & Broadhurst, 1996; Stith et al., 2009; Trickett, Aber, Carlson, & C”
Emotional Dysregulation and Negative Affect Mediate the Relationship Between Maternal History of Child Maltreatment and Maternal Child Abuse Potential (2014, background): “Within this field, the most well-developed area focuses on factors predicting increased risk for physical abuse with some related studies also examining risk for physical neglect and emotional abuse (Rodriguez and Tucker 2011; Stith et al. 2009; Thornberry, Knight, and Lovegrove 2012).”