A Prospective Examination of the Path from Child Abuse and Neglect to Illicit Drug Use in Middle Adulthood: The Potential Mediating Role of Four Risk Factors

Autor/inn/en	Wilson, Helen W.; Widom, Cathy Spatz
Titel	A Prospective Examination of the Path from Child Abuse and Neglect to Illicit Drug Use in Middle Adulthood: The Potential Mediating Role of Four Risk Factors
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38 (2009) 3, S.340-354 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-008-9331-6
Schlagwörter	Sexual Abuse; Homeless People; Delinquency; Child Abuse; Females; Structural Equation Models; Drug Abuse; At Risk Persons; Correlation; Crime; Child Neglect; Comparative Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; Young Adults; Interviews; Academic Achievement; Low Achievement; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Age Differences; Behavior Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Kriminalität; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Weibliches Geschlecht; Risikogruppe; Korrelation; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Kindesvernachlässigung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schulleistung; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	This study examines prostitution, homelessness, delinquency and crime, and school problems as potential mediators of the relationship between childhood abuse and neglect (CAN) and illicit drug use in middle adulthood. Children with documented cases of physical and sexual abuse and neglect (ages 0-11) during 1967-1971 were matched with non-maltreated children and followed into middle adulthood (approximate age 39). Mediators were assessed in young adulthood (approximate age 29) through in-person interviews between 1989 and 1995 and official arrest records through 1994 (N = 1,196). Drug use was assessed via self-reports of past year use of marijuana, psychedelics, cocaine, and/or heroin during 2000-2002 (N = 896). Latent variable structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test: (1) a four-factor model with separate pathways from CAN to illicit drug use through each of the mediating risk factors and (2) a second-order model with a single mediating risk factor comprised of prostitution, homelessness, delinquency and crime, and poor school performance. Analyses were performed separately for women and men, controlling for race/ethnicity and early drug use. In the four-factor model for both men and women, CAN was significantly related to each of the mediators, but no paths from the mediators to drug use were significant. For women, the second-order risk factor mediated the relationship between CAN and illicit drug use in middle adulthood. For men, neither child abuse and neglect nor the second-order risk factor predicted drug use in middle adulthood. These results suggest that for women, the path from CAN to middle adulthood drug use is part of a general "problem behavior syndrome" evident earlier in life. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10