Child sexual and physical abuse and alcoholism: a review.

Langeland, Willie; Hartgers, C.

doi:10.15288/jsa.1998.59.336

Cited by 146 publications

(84 citation statements)

References 66 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…More importantly, most research has not controlled for background factors that predispose individuals to the risk of abuse and have also been shown to be related to religiosity, such as minority racial status and family socioeconomic status (Beit-Hallahmi and Argyle 1997;Black, Slep, and Heyman 2001;Lee and Goerge 1999;Sedlak 1997). Furthermore, child maltreatment often emerges from families that are relatively dysfunctional or unstable (Briere 1992;Langeland and Hartgers 1998;Zuravin and Fontanella 1999), and a failure to control for this characteristic leads to the question of whether it is the trauma of family instability or abuse that accounts for the effects of abuse on adult religiosity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Childhood Maltreatment on Adult Religiosity and Spirituality: Rejecting God the Father Because of Abusive Fathers?

Bierman

2005

J Scientific Study of Religion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Childhood Maltreatment on Adult Religiosity and Spirituality: Rejecting God the Father Because of Abusive Fathers?

Bierman

2005

J Scientific Study of Religion

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Widom, Ireland and Glynn (1995) found no significant relationship between childhood abuse or neglect and later onset of alcohol problems in males, whereas a significant relationship was indicated in females. Physical and/or sexual abuse histories may thus increase the risk of later substance abuse in women more than men (Langeland & Hartgers, 1998). However, male CSA victims have been reported to encounter more difficulties in dealing with their past victimization than CSA females (Dhaliwal et al, 1996).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Childhood sexual abuse and substance abuse in relation to depression and coping

Lee

Lyvers

Edwards

2008

Journal of Substance Use

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…By ensuring that all participants were cocaine dependent, we could retrospectively examine the influence of childhood maltreatment on the progression of drug involvement from "lower stage" or "gateway" drugs such as alcohol and nicotine to cocaine, a "higher stage" drug. Further, since much research suggests that relationships between childhood maltreatment and substance use problems are stronger in women (3,4,(13)(14)(15)(16)(17), we conducted our analyses separately by gender. We hypothesized that childhood maltreatment severity would be negatively associated with the age of first substance use and age of onset of regular substance use and positively associated with lifetime substance use severity.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Specific Associations Between Types of Childhood Maltreatment and the Onset, Escalation and Severity of Substance Use in Cocaine Dependent Adults

Hyman

García

Sinha

2006

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

103

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We examined associations between types of childhood maltreatment and the onset, escalation, and severity of substance use in cocaine dependent adults. In men (n = 55), emotional abuse was associated with a younger age of first alcohol use and a greater severity of substance abuse. In women (n = 32), sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and overall maltreatment was associated with a younger age of first alcohol use, and emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and overall maltreatment was associated with a greater severity of substance abuse. There was no association between childhood maltreatment and age of nicotine or cocaine use. However, age of first alcohol use predicted age of first cocaine use in both genders. All associations were stronger in women. Findings suggest that early intervention for childhood victims, especially females, may delay or prevent the early onset of alcohol use and reduce the risk for a more severe course of addiction. KeywordsChildhood maltreatment; gender differences; substance use Childhood maltreatment is associated with the use and misuse of a variety of substances (1-4). However, the child maltreatment literature is limited by its historically disproportionate focus on sexual and physical abuse and its placement of emotional abuse and neglect to the periphery of investigations (5). Given that child neglect is most prevalent form of maltreatment, it is striking that it is not understood as well as other forms of maltreatment (6). Additionally, because emotional abuse was deemed less damaging than physical forms of maltreatment and because it was difficult to identify and define, until recently many researchers have not explicitly included this form of abuse in their studies (7,8). This critique is not meant to imply that the continued study of sexual and physical abuse is unwarranted. Rather, this research trend suggests that there is a greater need for investigation of the impact of all types of maltreatment on substance use development.The manner by which childhood maltreatment influences substance use may be best explained by stress-coping models of addiction. According to Wills and Hirky (9), living in an environment with few models of adaptive coping and experiencing negative life events may place individuals at risk for substance use by elevating stress, reducing reinforcement from the social environment, and making the coping functions of substance use appear more attractive. Childhood maltreatment fits into this model as an aversive early life experience that can increase an individual"s risk for experimental drug use and later addiction. Therefore, an important avenue of investigation would be to examine the influence of all types of childhood maltreatment on the age at which individuals first use various substances and the age at which they escalate to regular use of substances. Understanding these relationships is important from a prevention standpoint because certain types of childhood maltreatment may differentially place individuals at risk for initiating use of diffe...

show abstract

Child sexual and physical abuse and alcoholism: a review.

Cited by 146 publications

References 66 publications

The Effects of Childhood Maltreatment on Adult Religiosity and Spirituality: Rejecting God the Father Because of Abusive Fathers?

The Effects of Childhood Maltreatment on Adult Religiosity and Spirituality: Rejecting God the Father Because of Abusive Fathers?

Childhood sexual abuse and substance abuse in relation to depression and coping

Gender Specific Associations Between Types of Childhood Maltreatment and the Onset, Escalation and Severity of Substance Use in Cocaine Dependent Adults

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About