Protective Informal Social Control of Child Maltreatment and Child Abuse Injury in Seoul

Emery, Clifton R.; Eremina, Tatiana; Yang, Hye Lin; Yoo, Changgeun; Yoo, Jieun; Jang, Ja Kyung

doi:10.1177/0886260514554422

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“…Of the 100 men in the survey, 7 (7%) reported perpetrating some physical IPV against their spouses in the past year. This is not significantly different (Z = 1.32, p = .19) from the 11.5% IPV by fathers in the last year found in Emery et al's () study of Seoul. Of the men in the sample, 14 (14%) reported perpetration of severe physical child abuse in the past year.…”

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“…Of the 100 men in the survey, 7 (7%) reported perpetrating some physical IPV against their spouses in the past year. This is not significantly different (Z = 1.32, p = .19) from the 11.5% IPV by fathers in the last year found in Emery et al's (2014) A serious concern with respect to this sample is selection bias given the low response rate. Fortunately, the five administrative districts in this study were included in a much larger study of IPV in Seoul conducted in 2012, for which we have data access.…”

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confidence: 54%

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What would your neighbor do? An experimental approach to the study of informal social control of intimate partner violence in South Korea

Emery

Yang

Kim

et al. 2017

Journal Community Psychology

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Although research on bystander intervention and informal social control of intimate partner violence (IPV) is increasingly common, empirical anomalies remain and experimental studies on population samples are rare. This study reports the effects of a new experimental approach to the study of informal social control of IPV by neighbors on a small population sample of 100 married men in Seoul, South Korea. We hypothesized that men randomly assigned to a high‐perceived informal social control condition would have lower self‐estimated likelihoods of IPV perpetration in response to a vignette. We also hypothesized that the effect of random assignment would be different for that portion of the sample that reported perpetration of family violence (IPV or child abuse). Compared to the nonperpetrating portion of the sample, perpetrators of family violence in the sample randomly assigned to the high perceived control condition experienced a significant drop in self‐estimated likelihood of IPV perpetration.

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confidence: 59%

“…Of the 100 men in the survey, 7 (7%) reported perpetrating some physical IPV against their spouses in the past year. This is not significantly different (Z = 1.32, p = .19) from the 11.5% IPV by fathers in the last year found in Emery et al's (2014) A serious concern with respect to this sample is selection bias given the low response rate. Fortunately, the five administrative districts in this study were included in a much larger study of IPV in Seoul conducted in 2012, for which we have data access.…”

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confidence: 54%

What would your neighbor do? An experimental approach to the study of informal social control of intimate partner violence in South Korea

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“…Likewise, when very severe abuse did occur, protective ISC_CM was associated with fewer abuse-related externalizing behavior problems. Using the same scale, Emery et al (2015a) found protective ISC_CM was negatively associated with physical abuserelated injuries. Emery et al (2015b) found that acts of protective informal social control of intimate partner violence carried out by neighbors were negatively associated with physical child abuse severity.…”

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“…Analyses of collective efficacy and physical abuse in Sampson et al's Chicago data (1997) found no relationship (Molnar et al 2003). Studies of collective efficacy and physical abuse in the East Asian context found no relationship in Hanoi (Emery et al 2015c) or Seoul (Emery et al 2015a).…”

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“…Most research on informal social control using the collective efficacy construct has been carried out in the United States (Guterman et al 2009;Melton 2014;Molnar et al 2003;Yonas et al 2010). On the other hand, all of the research on ISC_CM published to date has been carried out in East Asia (Emery et al 2015a;Emery et al 2015c). Emery et al (2015c) argued that informal social control may be both stronger and more acceptable in collectivist cultures where cooperation (Parks and Vu 1994) and personal relationships are stressed (Wang et al 2012).…”

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Does Informal Social Control Deter Child Abuse? A Comparative Study of Koreans and Russians

Emery

Eremina

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Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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Evidence that informal social control by neighbors is negatively associated with child maltreatment is increasing, but extant studies are almost entirely cross-sectional and observational. We developed an experimental protocol for this vignette study to assess the effect of perceived informal social control on self-estimated probability of physical child abuse. Probability proportional to size cluster sampling of neighborhoods was used to obtain an experimental sample of 100 fathers from Seoul and 102 parents from Novosibirsk. In the experimental protocol, participants were told that the informal social control of child maltreatment scale was the most important scale, and that they had hence been given an example of the form "filled out by a neighbor." Participants were randomly assigned to high or low social control by neighbors, provided the questionnaire, and were debriefed afterwards. Random effects regression models found a significant interaction between the treatment and perpetrator status in Seoul. Informal social control appears to have the desired deterrent effect on those who have perpetrated abuse. However, consistent with forensic research on those who are incorrectly accused of crime, results for non-perpetrators did not conform to this pattern.

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Older Neighbors and The Neighborhood Context of Child Well‐Being: Pathways to Enhancing Social Capital for Children

Jespersen

Korbin

Spilsbury

2021

American J of Comm Psychol

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Drawing on Coleman’s concept of social capital, researchers have investigated how the quality of neighborhood social networks influences child development and well‐being. The role of non‐kin older neighbors in advancing child well‐being through the enhancement of social capital, however, has been under‐studied. Our objective was to delineate specific pathways through which non‐kin older neighbors contribute to neighborhood quality for children and families and potentially advance child well‐being. We examined open‐ended interview data from 400 parents who cared for at least one child under 18 years of age and resided in 20 neighborhoods in Cleveland, Ohio. A subsample of 113 parents connected older neighbors to neighborhood quality for families and children in their narratives. Our analysis identified three primary pathways through which parents positively linked older neighbors to neighborhood quality: older neighbors support parents and children, promote neighborhood safety, and contribute to neighborhood residential stability. These contributions are evidence of intergenerational closure, reciprocated exchange, and informal social control working together to create social capital in neighborhoods for children. It is by enhancing social capital that older neighbors potentially improve child well‐being. We discuss the implications of our findings for neighborhood research and practice.

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Protective Informal Social Control of Child Maltreatment and Child Abuse Injury in Seoul

Cited by 38 publications

References 17 publications

What would your neighbor do? An experimental approach to the study of informal social control of intimate partner violence in South Korea

What would your neighbor do? An experimental approach to the study of informal social control of intimate partner violence in South Korea

Does Informal Social Control Deter Child Abuse? A Comparative Study of Koreans and Russians

Older Neighbors and The Neighborhood Context of Child Well‐Being: Pathways to Enhancing Social Capital for Children

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