Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Adulthood Romantic Relationship Well-Being: A Multilevel, Meta-Analytic Review

Cao, Hongjian; Ma, Rongzi; Li, Xiaomin; Liang, Yuanbo; Wu, Qinglu; Chi, Peilian; Li, Jianbin; Zhou, Nan

doi:10.1177/1524838020975895

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“…A recent review of 43 articles using cross-sectional and longitudinal designs indicated that all types of CM are linked to victims' lower relationship quality in men and women in community, college, and clinical samples (Zamir, 2021). Recent meta-analyses also showed that emotional maltreatment is negatively related to victims' romantic relationship well-being (r = .14; Cao et al, 2020) and that CM is related to higher IPV victimization (r = .18; Li et al, 2019).…”

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Partner Effects of Childhood Maltreatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Vaillancourt‐Morel

Bussières

Nolin

et al. 2023

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Although several studies have shown that childhood maltreatment (CM) is associated with a host of negative consequences including romantic relationship difficulties for victims in adulthood, most overlooked the potential effects on the romantic partner. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to comprehensively synthesize the literature on the association between a person’s CM and their partner’s individual and couple outcomes. We searched PubMed, PsycNET, Medline, CINAHL, and Eric using search strings related to CM and partner. We identified 3,238 articles after removal of duplicates; 28 studies met the inclusion criteria and relied on independent sample. The studies reported associations between a person’s CM and a wide breadth of partner’s negative couple outcomes (e.g., communication, sexuality) as well as intra-individual psychological difficulties (e.g., psychological distress, emotion, and stress reactivity). Meta-analytic results showed significant, but trivial to small associations between a person’s CM and their partner’s lower relationship satisfaction ( r = −.09, 95% CI [−.14, −.04]), higher intimate partner violence ( r = .08, [.05, .12]), and higher psychological distress ( r = .11, [.06, .16]). These associations were similar for women and men and did not differ as a function of sample’s mean age, proportion of cultural diversity, and publication year. These findings suggest that a person’s CM is related to their partner’s outcomes including to the partner’s intra-individual outcomes. Prevention and intervention strategies should acknowledge that a person’s CM may also affect their romantic partner, considering the couple as a reciprocal system, and offer victims’ romantic partners specific services.

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Partner Effects of Childhood Maltreatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Vaillancourt‐Morel

Bussières

Nolin

et al. 2023

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…Such problems could cause difficulties in building intimate relationship with others [ 25 ]. Especially, detrimental effects of childhood emotional abuse for adulthood romantic relationship well-being, such as struggle with fear of rejection or abandonment, and difficulty in trusting others have been identified [ 26 , 27 ]. Thus, the social and psychological maladjustment, especially the limited capacity to form intimate relationships, correlated with childhood emotional abuse, could contribute to the negative desire to get married and have children.…”

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Childhood Emotional Abuse Is Associated With the Desire to Get Married and Have Children in Korean Young Adults

Lee

Kim

Youn

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Psychiatry Investig

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Objective Young adults putting off marriage and having less children have become recent trends in many modern societies. Yet less is known about the psychological factors underlying the drastically low marriage and fertility rates. We hypothesized that childhood maltreatment experience may have a negative association with one’s marriage and childbearing intention.Methods A total of 1,004 college students (mean age of 20.8±2.3 years, 56.1% female) completed self-questionnaires including sociodemographic information, marriage and childbearing intention, Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9), and Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ). Multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted to evaluate the effect of childhood trauma on marriage and childbearing intentions after controlling for sociodemographic variables and depression.Results 29.7% had no intention to get married and 40.4% had no intention to have children in the future. The prevalence of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse was 33.1%, 18.5%, and 22.3%, respectively. Multivariable logistic regression analyses revealed that female (p<0.001), poor health status (p=0.001), and childhood emotional abuse (p=0.01) were independent predictors of no desire to get married. Female (p<0.001), poor health status (p<0.001), and childhood emotional abuse (p=0.038) were also predictors of no desire to have children.Conclusion Childhood emotional abuse may be the most damaging form among other types of childhood maltreatment because it can occur more pervasively and persist for a longer period, causing extensive damage to a child’s emotional, social and cognitive development. Raising awareness regarding the life-long consequences of childhood emotional abuse and the need to prevent and detect childhood emotional abuse should be emphasized.

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“…Studies of various types (e.g., journal articles, book chapters) were extensively located by using two techniques that are commonly used in systematic literature reviews (e.g., Cao, Ma, et al, 2020;Proulx et al, 2007). First, studies were retrieved by searching a number of prominent online academic databases, including Pro-Quest Central, ProQuest-PsycINFO, EBSCOhost, Elsevier Science-Direct, PubMed, Web of Science, Wiley Online Library, and Sociological Abstracts.…”

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Origins and development of maternal self-efficacy in emotion-related parenting during the transition to parenthood: Toward an integrative process framework beyond Bandura’s model.

Cao¹,

Leerkes²,

Zhou³

2023

Psychological Review

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For new mothers, coping with infant distress is challenging. Mothers' self-efficacy in emotion-related parenting plays critical roles in shaping their adaptation and children's development. Research on antecedents of maternal parenting self-efficacy has been predominantly based on the global self-efficacy theory outlined by Bandura in the 1970s. Despite the utility of Bandura's theory, subsequent research on emotion-related parenting has highlighted avenues for extending and adapting his model to more adequately elucidate the cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes underlying the development of maternal emotion-related parenting self-efficacy. In view of the basic and applied value of a clearer account of how new mothers' emotion-related parenting self-efficacy emerges and evolves, the increasing amount of research on this topic, and the absence of syntheses of extant studies, we reviewed relevant literature. First, constructs and propositions in prevailing theoretical perspectives are examined for their utility to elucidate the development of new mothers' emotion-related parenting self-efficacy, particularly the implicated cognitive, affective, and behavioral mechanisms and how they work together. Second, a framework is outlined that integrates strengths of various theories to delineate processes underlying the emergence and evolution of new mothers' emotion-related parenting self-efficacy. Third, findings across disparate studies are summarized to provide a foundation for the offered framework. To better inform future research, we demonstrated how to build testable mid-range models with substantive constructs and hypotheses from the proposed framework through deductive theorizing process. We also evaluated the utility of the proposed model for studying new fathers. Last, implications for future research and practice are discussed.

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Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Adulthood Romantic Relationship Well-Being: A Multilevel, Meta-Analytic Review

Cited by 16 publications

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Partner Effects of Childhood Maltreatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Partner Effects of Childhood Maltreatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Childhood Emotional Abuse Is Associated With the Desire to Get Married and Have Children in Korean Young Adults

Origins and development of maternal self-efficacy in emotion-related parenting during the transition to parenthood: Toward an integrative process framework beyond Bandura’s model.

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