TY - JOUR
T1 - Patterns of Adjustment among Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
T2 - a Person-Centered Approach
AU - McDonald, Shelby Elaine
AU - Graham-Bermann, Sandra A.
AU - Maternick, Anna
AU - Ascione, Frank R.
AU - Williams, James Herbert
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by Grant 5R01-HD-66503-4 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Grant 2015-0709 from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or ASPCA. This paper was presented in part at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in October 2015 in Denver, CO. The authors would like to thank the community-based domestic violence advocates for their contribution to this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer International Publishing.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - This study examined profiles of adjustment in an ethnically diverse sample of 291 school-age children recruited from community-based domestic violence services. Using latent profile analysis (LPA), six domains of adjustment were examined: social problems, attention problems, internalizing behavior, externalizing behavior, empathy, and callous/unemotional traits. Results of the LPA provided support for three distinct profiles of socioemotional functioning among children in the sample: Resilient (66 %; n = 191), Struggling (28 %; n = 83), and Severe Maladjustment (6 %; n = 17). Variables that distinguished between the profiles included: children’s race/ethnicity, exposure to concomitant animal cruelty, relationship to the abusive partner, and the duration of their maternal caregiver’s experience of IPV. Study results lend support to previous research suggesting differential patterns of socioemotional adjustment among children exposed to IPV.
AB - This study examined profiles of adjustment in an ethnically diverse sample of 291 school-age children recruited from community-based domestic violence services. Using latent profile analysis (LPA), six domains of adjustment were examined: social problems, attention problems, internalizing behavior, externalizing behavior, empathy, and callous/unemotional traits. Results of the LPA provided support for three distinct profiles of socioemotional functioning among children in the sample: Resilient (66 %; n = 191), Struggling (28 %; n = 83), and Severe Maladjustment (6 %; n = 17). Variables that distinguished between the profiles included: children’s race/ethnicity, exposure to concomitant animal cruelty, relationship to the abusive partner, and the duration of their maternal caregiver’s experience of IPV. Study results lend support to previous research suggesting differential patterns of socioemotional adjustment among children exposed to IPV.
KW - Adjustment
KW - Animal cruelty
KW - CU traits
KW - Domestic violence
KW - Resilience
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U2 - 10.1007/s40653-016-0079-y
DO - 10.1007/s40653-016-0079-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84971492757
SN - 1936-1521
VL - 9
SP - 137
EP - 152
JO - Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma
JF - Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma
IS - 2
ER -