Citation

Muller RT, Fitzgerald HE, Sullivan LA, Zucker RA. Can. J. Behav. Sci. 1994; 26(3): 438-461.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Canadian Psychological Association, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1037/0008-400X.26.3.438

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Investigated the relationships among social support, stress, child maltreatment, and child aggressiveness in alcoholic families. Ss were 62 fathers, 65 mothers, and 65 children (aged 3-5 yrs). Three process models based on prior research were proposed and tested against one another using path analysis.

RESULTS suggest that for fathers, social support and stress were each independent direct predictors of child maltreatment. For mothers, social support was an indirect predictor of child maltreatment, and it buffered (moderated) the effect of stress on child maltreatment. For both fathers and mothers, lifetime alcohol problems predicted extent of child maltreatment. The data also indicate that child maltreatment influenced child aggressiveness. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords

Aggressiveness; Alcohol Abuse; Child Abuse; Fathers; Mothers; Psychological Stress; Social Support