Citation

Banyard VL, Williams LM, Siegel JA. Child Maltreat. 2003; 8(4): 334-349.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, USA. vlb@cisunix.unh.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

14604179

Abstract

The current study examined (a) maternal depression as a mediator between mothers' complex trauma exposure and parenting difficulties and (b) protective factors within a sample of adult survivors of complex child and adult trauma. Participants were a sample of 152 women selected from 174 women interviewed in the third wave of a longitudinal study of a hospital sample of girls. The women in the current study represent a subsample that includes all participants who had given birth to a child. Measures included assessments of women's own trauma history and parenting outcomes. Higher rates of trauma exposure were related to decreased parenting satisfaction, reports of child neglect, use of physical punishment, and a history of protective service reports. These links were partially mediated by the relationship between trauma exposure and increased maternal depression. Exploratory analyses were also conducted to examine protective factors for fewer parenting problems within a further subsample of trauma survivors.

Language: en