Ja. Caliso et Js. Milner, CHILDHOOD PHYSICAL ABUSE, CHILDHOOD SOCIAL SUPPORT, AND ADULT-CHILD ABUSE POTENTIAL, Journal of interpersonal violence, 9(1), 1994, pp. 27-44
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Family Studies","Psychology, Social","Criminology & Penology
The childhood experience of physical abuse is believed to be associate
d with parental child abuse. However, not all parents with a childhood
history of abuse are abusive, indicating that factors such as social
support may buffer the effects of childhood abuse. To examine the role
of social support in the discrimination of physical child abusers and
nonabusers, the Childhood Social Network Questionnaire (CSNQ) and the
Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory were given to matched groups of
physical child abusers with a childhood history of physical abuse, no
nabusers with a childhood history of physical abuse, and nonabusers wi
thout a childhood history of physical abuse. Overall, CSNQ factors and
the CAP abuse scale each distinguished between physical child abusers
and nonabusers. The CAP abuse scale, however provided the highest cla
ssification rates, and the rates were not improved by the addition of
social support factors. In contrast to expectations, none of the socia
l support factors distinguished between physical child abusers with a
childhood history of physical abuse and the group of nonabusers with a
childhood history of physical abuse.