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Childhood sexual abuse and attachment: An intergenerational perspective
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Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a recognized risk factor for various negative outcomes in adult survivors and their offspring. We used the Dynamic-Maturational Model of attachment theory as a framework for exploring the impact of maternal CSA on children’s attachment relationships in the context of a longitudinal sample of adult survivors of CSA and non-abused comparison mothers and their children. Results indicated that children of CSA survivors were more likely to have extreme strategies of attachment than the children of non-abused mothers. However, because both groups were at socioeconomic risk, both were typified by anxious attachment. Explanations for findings and implications for children’s development are explored.
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“Disruptions in internal working models of attachment can extend into the next generation such that mothers with a CSA history generalize attachment insecurity to relationships formed with their own children (Kwako et al. 2010).”
From Child Sexual Abuse as a Unique Risk Factor for the Development of Psychopathology: The Compounded Convergence of Mechanisms (2021) · cites this paper as Kwako et al. 2010
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kwako, L. E., Noll, J. G., Putnam, F. W., & Trickett, P. K.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kwako, Laura E.
- Venue
- Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-07
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 407-422
- ISSN
- 1359-1045 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7021
- PMC
- PMC3161402
- OpenAlex
- W2159356121
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K01HD041402, R01HD052533)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- child sexual abuse, intergenerational transmission, attachment, maternal abuse, attachment anxiety, socioeconomic risk, child development
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Child Abuse, Sexual, Child, Preschool, Defense Mechanisms, Female, Humans, Infant, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Maternal Behavior, Mother-Child Relations, Object Attachment, Personality Assessment, Risk Factors, Social Environment, Parenting, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Young Adult
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