A longitudinal investigation of protective factors for bereaved maltreated youth |
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| Institution: | 1. Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Al Tarfa Street, Zone 70, PO Box 200592, Al-Daayen, Qatar;2. Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, PO Box 14, Birzeit, Palestine;1. Edinburgh Napier University, School of Health & Social Care, Edinburgh, UK;2. NHS Lothian, Rivers Centre for Traumatic Stress, Edinburgh, UK;3. Ulster University, School of Psychology, Derry, UK;4. NHS Scotland, The State Hospital & Forensic Network, UK;5. Edinburgh University, Division of Psychiatry, Edinburgh, UK;6. HMP YOI Cornton Vale, Scottish Prison Service, Stirling, UK;7. National College of Ireland, School of Business, Dublin, Ireland;3. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Out-patient Clinic (BUP) Orkanger, Division of Mental Health Care, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway |
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| Abstract: | BackgroundMaltreated youth are at an elevated risk for the development of problem behaviors. Coping with the death of a family member or close friend during adolescence, referred to as bereavement, is a stressful event that could potentiate risk linked to maltreatment. However, developmental research suggests that youth adjustment is a product of multiple risk and protective factors. Although maltreated youth who experience loss may be particularly vulnerable to behavior problems, personal and contextual factors may attenuate or exacerbate youths’ risk for internalizing and externalizing psychopathology.ObjectiveThe overarching goal of this study is to examine individual, family, and community-level protective factors for maltreated youth who experience bereavement. Specifically, we aim to examine the effect of age 12 bereavement on age 16 internalizing and externalizing psychopathology, and to investigate the moderating role of multi-level protective factors at ages 14 and 16.MethodsThe study consisted of a sample of 800 youth (52.4% female, 45.1% African-American) drawn from the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN), collected from 1998 to 2011.ResultsMaltreated youth who experienced significant loss were at increased risk for externalizing symptoms, compared to non-bereaved maltreated youth (β = 0.085, p < .05). Individual future orientation (β = 0.103, p < .05) family future orientation (β = ?0.120, p < .05), parental monitoring (β = ?0.123, p< .01), and neighborhood collective efficacy (β = ?0.126, p < .01) each significantly moderated the association between bereavement and externalizing symptoms.ConclusionsThese results have implications for future interventions aimed towards reducing problem behaviors in adolescents with a history of child maltreatment and who experience bereavement. |
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| Keywords: | Bereavement Child maltreatment Early adversity Externalizing behaviors Adolescence Resilience |
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