The protective effect of neighborhood social cohesion in child abuse and neglect

Maguire‐Jack, Kathryn; Showalter, Kathryn

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.12.011

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“…The protective mechanism of community participation appears to hold across a number of cultures, as the current study was conducted in 20 studies in the United States, and Gracia and Musitu (2003) examined families in Spain and Colombia. In terms of the neighborhood processes, the findings also provide further support for the prior studies that found collective efficacy (and related concepts) to be associated with maltreatment (Fresithler & Maguire-Jack, 2015; Fujiwara et al, 2016; Garbarino & Sherman, 1980; Maguire-Jack & Wang, 2016; Maguire-Jack & Showalter, 2016; Molnar et al, 2016; Vinson et al, 1996). …”

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“…Guterman and colleagues (2009) found that more negative perceptions of collective efficacy and social disorder were associated with higher levels of psychological aggression and physical assault. Several studies have found that a higher rate of neighborhood social cohesion is related to lower rates of child neglect (Maguire-Jack & Wang, 2016; Maguire-Jack & Showalter, 2016) and that a higher level of collective efficacy is associated with lower rates of abuse (Freisthler & Maguire-Jack, 2015) and neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse (Molnar et al, 2016). In related work, Fujiwara, Yamaoka, & Kawachi (2016)) found that residents of neighborhoods with higher rates of maltreatment reported that their neighbors were less likely to assist with childcare, had more negative comments about their neighborhood, had higher levels of stress, and were less likely to engage in neighborhood exchanges compared to residents in neighborhoods with lower rates of maltreatment.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Interactions with community members and institutions: Preventive pathways for child maltreatment

Cao

Maguire‐Jack

2016

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Parents interact with their environment in important ways that may impact their ability to parent their children positively. The current study uses data from the age 3 wave of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to investigate whether neighborhood processes and community participation relate to internal control, and whether these three variables are associated with child maltreatment behaviors. Using structural equation modeling, the direct and indirect effects of the environment (neighborhood disorder, social control, and social cohesion) and community participation on child maltreatment are tested. The mediating variable tested is internal control. The results show that neighborhood processes and community participation are associated with child neglect, physical child abuse, and psychological aggression but that these associations are driven through their effect on internal control.

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confidence: 81%

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Interactions with community members and institutions: Preventive pathways for child maltreatment

Cao

Maguire‐Jack

2016

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…Previous studies have demonstrated that greater neighborhood cohesion is associated not only with lower risk of chronic diseases, but is also strongly associated with better mental health . Strong neighborhood cohesion strengthens community trust and a feeling of belonging, which may prevent neglectful behaviors . All these benefits would make older adults less vulnerable to self‐neglect.…”

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Association Between Neighborhood Cohesion and Self‐Neglect in Chinese‐American Older Adults

Hei

Dong

2017

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…Sellstrӧm and Bremberg indicated that 10% of the variance in child health and adolescent outcomes, including maltreatment, can be explained by the SES of the neighborhood and the social climate. One finding related to SES that is worth mentioning is that higher levels of parental education are linked with less corporal punishment …”

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Attending, learning, and socioeconomic disadvantage: developmental cognitive and social neuroscience of resilience and vulnerability

Schibli

Wong

Hedayati

2017

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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We review current findings associating socioeconomic status (SES), development of neurocognitive functions, and neurobiological pathways. A sizeable interdisciplinary literature was organized through a bifurcated developmental trajectory (BiDeT) framework, an account of the external and internal variables associated with low SES that may lead to difficulties with attention and learning, along with buffers that may protect against negative outcomes. A consistent neurocognitive finding is that low-SES children attend to information nonselectively, and engage in late filtering out of task-irrelevant information. Attentional preferences influence the development of latent inhibition (LI), an aspect of learning that involves reassigning meaningful associations to previously learned but irrelevant stimuli. LI reflects learning processes clarifying the relationship between neurobiological mechanisms related to attention and socioeconomic disadvantage during child development. Notably, changes in both selective attention and typical LI development may occur via the mesocorticolimbic dopamine (MsCL-DA) system. Chaotic environments, social isolation, and deprivation associated with low SES trigger stress responses implicating imbalances in the MsCL-DA and consolidating anxiety traits. BiDeT describes plausible interactions between socioemotional traits and low-SES environments that modify selective attention and LI, predisposing individuals to vulnerability in cognitive development and academic achievement. However, positive role models, parental style, and self-regulation training are proposed as potential promoters of resilience.

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The protective effect of neighborhood social cohesion in child abuse and neglect

Cited by 126 publications

References 32 publications

Interactions with community members and institutions: Preventive pathways for child maltreatment

Interactions with community members and institutions: Preventive pathways for child maltreatment

Association Between Neighborhood Cohesion and Self‐Neglect in Chinese‐American Older Adults

Attending, learning, and socioeconomic disadvantage: developmental cognitive and social neuroscience of resilience and vulnerability

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