TY - JOUR PY - 2014// TI - Understanding child maltreatment in Hanoi: Intimate partner violence, low self-control, and social and child care support JO - Journal of interpersonal violence A1 - Emery, Clifton R. A1 - Nguyen, Hai Trung A1 - Kim, Jaeyop SP - 1228 EP - 1257 VL - 29 IS - 7 N2 - This study aimed to understand the role of low self-control, stress, depression, experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse, and social support and child care support in the etiology of child abuse and neglect in Hanoi, Vietnam. The study estimated the prevalence of child maltreatment in a randomly selected, representative cluster sample of 269 Hanoi families. Among these families, 21% reported severe abuse of their children in the past year, 12% reported neglect. Low self-control was found to be strongly associated with child abuse. Life stressors were found to be strongly associated with neglect, but only indirectly with child abuse. Counter-intuitively, a positive interaction between social support and low self-control was found, suggesting that social support of parents low in self-control is associated with more maltreatment. Implications for research, intervention, and criminological theory are discussed.

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LA - en SN - 0886-2605 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260513506276 ID - ref1 ER -