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Rijlaarsdam J, Stevens GW, Jansen PW, et al. Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Maternal and Paternal Mechanisms of Risk Transmission. Child Maltreat. 2014;19(2):67-78doi: 10.1177/1077559514527639.
Rijlaarsdam, J., Stevens, G. W., Jansen, P. W., Ringoot, A. P., Jaddoe, V. W., Hofman, A., Ayer, L., Verhulst, F. C., Hudziak, J. J., & Tiemeier, H. (2014). Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Maternal and Paternal Mechanisms of Risk Transmission. Child maltreatment, 19(2), 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559514527639
Rijlaarsdam, Jolien, et al. "Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Maternal and Paternal Mechanisms of Risk Transmission." Child maltreatment vol. 19,2 (2014): 67-78. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559514527639
Rijlaarsdam J, Stevens GW, Jansen PW, Ringoot AP, Jaddoe VW, Hofman A, Ayer L, Verhulst FC, Hudziak JJ, Tiemeier H. Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Maternal and Paternal Mechanisms of Risk Transmission. Child Maltreat. 2014 May;19(2):67-78. doi: 10.1177/1077559514527639. Epub 2014 Mar 18. PMID: 24642695.
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Child Maltreat. 2014 May;19(2):67-78. doi: 10.1177/1077559514527639. Epub 2014 Mar 18.

Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Maternal and Paternal Mechanisms of Risk Transmission.

Child maltreatment

Jolien Rijlaarsdam, Gonneke W J M Stevens, Pauline W Jansen, Ank P Ringoot, Vincent W V Jaddoe, Albert Hofman, Lynsay Ayer, Frank C Verhulst, James J Hudziak, Henning Tiemeier

Affiliations

  1. The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  2. Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  3. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  4. The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  5. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  6. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
  7. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  8. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands [email protected].

PMID: 24642695 DOI: 10.1177/1077559514527639

Abstract

This study examined hostility and harsh discipline of both mothers and fathers as potential mechanisms explaining the association between a maternal maltreatment history and her offspring's internalizing and externalizing problems. Prospective data from fetal life to age 6 were collected from a total of 4,438 families participating in the Generation R Study. Maternal maltreatment was assessed during pregnancy using a self-administered questionnaire. Mothers and fathers each reported on their psychological distress and harsh discipline when the child was 3 years. Children's internalizing and externalizing problems were assessed by parental reports and child interview at age 6. Findings from structural equation modeling showed that the association between a maternal maltreatment history and her offspring's externalizing problems was explained by maternal hostility and harsh discipline and, at least partially, also by paternal hostility and harsh discipline. Child interview data provided support for both these indirect paths, with associations largely similar to those observed for parent reports.

© The Author(s) 2014.

Keywords: child; child maltreatment; cohort studies; fathers; parenting; psychopathology

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