Domestic violence, maternal parenting, maternal mental health, and infant externalizing behavior.

This study examined whether maternal functioning mediated the relationship between domestic violence (DV) and infant externalizing behavior. Participants were 203 mother-infant dyads. Support was found for a partially mediated model in which maternal functioning mediated the relationship between current DV and infant externalizing behaviors. Past DV was directly associated with infants' externalizing behavior. Results suggest the need for early intervention and prevention efforts for families living with DV.

Levendosky AA ，Leahy KL ，Bogat GA ，Davidson WS ，von Eye A ... -  《JOURNAL OF FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY》

Factors discriminating among profiles of resilience and psychopathology in children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV).

Graham-Bermann SA ，Gruber G ，Howell KH ，Girz L ... -  《-》

Mothers' violence victimization and child behavior problems: examining the link.

The current study examined the link between parents' experience of violence victimization and child outcomes, in 197 mother-child dyads recruited from low-income urban neighborhoods. At recruitment (when children were between 6 and 18 months old), demographic factors, child behavioral outcomes, mother-child interactions, mothers' psychosocial functioning, and mothers' history of violence victimization were assessed. Child behavioral outcomes, mother-child interactions, and mothers' psychosocial functioning were assessed again at age 4. Mothers' history of victimization as children (but not as adults) uniquely predicted child behavior problems at age 4. Three classes of possible mediators were examined: demographics, maternal psychosocial functioning, and mother-child interactions. Of these, only mother psychological aggression toward child met preliminary criteria for mediation; it partially mediated the link between mother childhood victimization and child behavioral outcomes. Maternal depressive symptoms and young age at child's birth independently predicted child behavior problems, but did not act as mediators. Mothers' early experiences with violence victimization appear to exert an important influence on child behavioral outcomes; this influence appears to be mediated, in part, by mothers' psychological aggression toward their children.

Thompson R 《-》

Self-reported disciplinary practices among women in the child welfare system: association with domestic violence victimization.

Kelleher KJ ，Hazen AL ，Coben JH ，Wang Y ，McGeehan J ，Kohl PL ，Gardner WP ... -  《CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT》

Maternal mental health and child behaviour problems at 2 years: findings from the Pacific Islands Families Study.

Gao W ，Paterson J ，Abbott M ，Carter S ，Iusitini L ... -  《AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY》