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Does Physical Abuse in Early Childhood Predict Substance Use in Adolescence and Early Adulthood?

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Lansford, Jennifer E., Dodge, Kenneth A., Pettit, Gregory S., Bates, John E.·2010·Child Maltreatment

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Prospective longitudinal data from 585 families were used to examine parents’ reports of child physical abuse in the first 5 years of life as a predictor of substance use at ages 12, 16, and 24. Path analyses revealed that physical abuse in the first 5 years of life predicted subsequent substance use for females but not males. We found a direct effect of early physical abuse on girls’ substance use at age 12 and indirect effects on substance use at age 16 and age 24 through substance use at age 12. For boys, age 12 substance use predicted age 16 substance use, and age 16 substance use predicted age 24 substance use, but physical abuse in the first 5 years of life was unrelated to subsequent substance use. These findings suggest that for females, a mechanism of influence of early physical abuse on substance use into early adulthood appears to be through precocious initiation of substance use in early adolescence.

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  • CPA is linked to antisocial outcomes including substance abuse, aggression, criminality and violence.

    “Consistent with this, CPA has been linked to antisocial outcomes including substance abuse, aggression, criminality and violence (Banducci et al., 2014; Lansford et al., 2010).”

    From Childhood Physical Abuse and Antisocial Traits: Mediating Role of Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Clusters (2022) · cites this paper as Lansford et al., 2010

    The Results and Discussion (pages unavailable) link early childhood physical abuse to later substance use for females, but not males. The introductory passage reports aggression and delinquency among outcomes of child maltreatment generally; it does not establish those outcomes specifically for physical abuse, and the paper does not establish a link to violence. The citing sentence omits the substance-use finding’s gender qualification. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  1. Englund MM Egeland B Appleyard K 2009 April A prospective longitudinal examination of child maltreatment and alcohol use across early adulthood Longitudinal and intergenerational relations between substance use and child maltreatment Symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development Denver, CO

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Authors
Lansford, J. E., Dodge, K. A., Pettit, G. S., & Bates, J. E.
Affiliations
  • Duke University (US)
  • Auburn University (US)
  • Indiana University Bloomington (US)
Corresponding author
Lansford, Jennifer E.
Venue
Child Maltreatment
Published
2009-12-16
Volume
15
Issue
2
Pages
190-194
ISSN
  • 1077-5595 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-6119
OpenAlex
W1970931265
Cited by
153
References
15
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Child Maltreatment (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH57024, R01MH057024, MH56961, R01MH057095, R01MH056961, MH57095, R01MH042498)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA016903, R01DA016903, K05DA015226)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD030572)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
Keywords
child physical abuse, early childhood, substance use, adolescence, early adulthood, sex differences, intergenerational transmission
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Age Factors, Child, Child Abuse, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Infant, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Models, Psychological, Personality Development, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Statistics as Topic, Substance-Related Disorders, Young Adult

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