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Abstract
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate long-term effects of parental use of physical and verbal punishment on Mexican women. To study both direct and indirect effects of these phenomena, a structural model was developed and tested.
METHOD: One hundred and fifty Mexican women were interviewed with regard to their history of child abuse, their level of depression, alcohol use, antisocial behavior, and punishment of their own children. Factors representing such constructs were specified within a structural equation model and their inter-relations were estimated. Women's history of abuse was considered as an exogenous latent variable directly affecting three other factors: mothers' antisocial behavior, their alcohol consumption, and their levels of depression or anxiety. These factors, in turn, were specified as influencing mothers' harsh discipline of their own children.
RESULTS: Data supported this model, indicating that a history of abuse has long-term effects on women's behavior and psychological functioning, which in turn cause women's punitive behavior against their children.
CONCLUSIONS: These results are discussed in terms of the theoretical framework of intergenerational transmission of violence. The direct consequences (depression, anxiety, alcohol consumption, and antisocial behavior) of child punishment act as risk factors for the next generation of child abuse. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Child Abuse & Neglect, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Elsevier Science)
Mexico
Foreign Countries
Child Abuse Effects
Child Abuse Victim
Child Emotional Abuse Effects
Child Emotional Abuse Victim
Child Physical Abuse Effects
Child Physical Abuse Victim
Child Female
Child Victim
Female Victim
Parental Punishment
Long-Term Effects
Psychological Victimization Effects
Adult Female
Adult Survivor
Hispanic Adult
Hispanic Child
Hispanic Female
Hispanic Victim
Victim Depression
Victim Substance Use
Adult Substance Use
Adult Depression
Depression Causes
Substance Use Causes
Alcohol Use Causes
Adult Antisocial Behavior
Adult Behavior
Behavior Causes
Adult Adjustment
Victim Adjustment
Parental Discipline
Physical Punishment
Emotional Adjustment
Intergenerational Transmission of Child Abuse
Intergenerational Transmission of Violence
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