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The impact of maternal childhood maltreatment on child externalizing behaviour and the mediating factors underlying this association: a three-level meta-analysis and systematic review.
- Source :
- European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; Aug2024, Vol. 33 Issue 8, p2445-2470, 26p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Child maltreatment can negatively impact not only survivors but also survivors' children. However, research on the intergenerational effect of maternal childhood maltreatment on child externalizing behaviour has yielded contradictory results and has not yet been systematically synthesised. The current three-level meta-analysis and systematic review aimed to provide a quantitative estimate of the strength of the association between maternal childhood maltreatment and child externalizing behaviour and to summarise research on potential mediating factors of this association. PsycINFO, PubMed, and Embase were searched and 39 studies with 82 effects sizes were included in the meta-analysis. Results revealed a small significant association between maternal childhood maltreatment and child externalizing behaviour (r = 0.16; 95% CI 0.12–0.19; publication bias-adjusted effect size: r = 0.12, 95% CI 0.08–0.16). Maternal mental health, particularly depressive symptoms, maternal parenting and children's maltreatment exposure were the most frequently examined mediators of this association, with relatively robust mediating effects for children's maltreatment exposure and maternal depressive symptoms, but mixed evidence for the mediating role of maternal parenting. This meta-analysis provides evidence for a small but significant association between maternal childhood maltreatment and children's externalizing behaviour, emphasizing the need to develop effective preventive and intervention strategies to minimise the effects of childhood maltreatment on the next generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RISK assessment
MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems
META-analysis
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHI-squared test
BEHAVIOR disorders in children
SYSTEMATIC reviews
MEDLINE
PSYCHOLOGY of mothers
MOTHER-child relationship
EXTERNALIZING behavior
DATA analysis software
ONLINE information services
CONFIDENCE intervals
ADVERSE childhood experiences
PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems
INTERGENERATIONAL relations
CHILDREN
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10188827
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178622993
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-02117-0