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Rolf Magnus Grung; Gunn-Astrid Baugerud; Ragnhild Klingenberg Røed; Miriam S. Johnson – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2024
When forensic interviewers reject children's "Don't know" responses, either by repeating questions or pressuring the children to provide different responses, children may change their subsequent responses. The primary objective of the current study was to examine interviewer reactions following preschool-aged alleged abuse victims'…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Responses, Victims of Crime, Child Abuse
Olatokunbo Osibogun; Olufemi Erinoso; Wei Li; Mohammad Ebrahimi Kalan; Zoran Bursac; Akin Osibogun – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Objective: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which refer to childhood traumatic events, have been identified as risk factors for tobacco use in adulthood. However, studies are limited on the effect of sex on the association of ACEs with e-cigarettes and dual use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes. This study explored sex differences in the…
Descriptors: Trauma, Child Development, Gender Differences, Smoking
Ann-Marie Y. Barrett; Theresa W. Cheng; Jessica E. Flannery; Kathryn L. Mills; Philip A. Fisher; Clare F. McCann; Jennifer H. Pfeifer – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Adverse experiences throughout development confer risk for a multitude of negative long-term outcomes, but the processes via which these experiences are neurobiologically embedded are still unclear. Adolescence provides an opportunity to understand how these experiences impact the brain's rapidly changing structure. Two models are central to…
Descriptors: Females, Cognitive Development, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Tolan, Özlem Çakmak – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
This study aims to investigate the relationship between childhood traumas, dark triad personality traits, and obsessive beliefs. Personal Information Form, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, Short Dark Triad Scale, and Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire were used to collect data in the study. A total of 480 volunteers, of which 306 were female and 174…
Descriptors: Trauma, Personality Traits, Beliefs, Correlation
Olerilwe Topo Mokokwe; Botlhe Eva Ntsinyane; Kennedy Amone-P'Olak – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Worldwide, childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is widespread with severe consequences. We assessed the influence of CSA on insecure attachment in 488 young women in Botswana with no history of CSA, a history of CSA without re-occurrence in adulthood, and a history of CSA with re-occurrence in adulthood. Binary logistic regression analyses were fitted to…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Attachment Behavior, Young Adults
Isabel Silva-Lorente; Cristina Escribano Barreno – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Introduction: This study explores students', teachers' and no teaching staff's knowledge about the risk factors of child abuse and their level of awareness in comparison with other professional and educational fields. The study assesses the degree of knowledge about the risk factors related to child characteristics, family, socioeconomic and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Foreign Countries, Adults, Teachers
Rantala, Anna; Heikkilä, Mia – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
The basic idea of a Swedish preschool is that it is a place where children can learn and experience growth in a variety of areas, not least in the social area. According to the Education Act all preschools must annually document and evaluate planned work to prevent and remedy abusive treatment. The aim of this article is to analyse if and how the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Policy, Child Abuse, Foreign Countries
Else-Marie Augusti; Mia Catherine Myhre – Child Care in Practice, 2024
Background: Children who experience sexual or physical abuse often delay their disclosure. This study aimed to clarify the barriers and facilitators to abuse disclosure in a sample of children and adolescents participating in a police interview regarding alleged abuse. Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 children (nine girls)…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Affordances, Barriers
Gongola, Jennifer; Williams, Shanna; Lyon, Thomas D. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
Concealment (i.e., omitting information without saying anything untrue) has received little empirical attention relative to falsification (i.e., false statements). This study examined free recall reports among a sample of 349 maltreated and nonmaltreated children ages four to nine, and found that concealment of a minor transgression was…
Descriptors: Deception, Recall (Psychology), Responses, Children
Ruiz-Casares, Mónica; Thombs, Brett D.; Mayo, Nancy E.; Andrina, Michelle; Scott, Susan C.; Platt, Robert William – Prevention Science, 2022
The "Families First" parenting program is a 10-week paraprofessional-administered adaptation of the Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting program for West Java, Indonesia. It has not been tested in a randomized controlled trial. The objective was to evaluate the effects of "Families First" on physical and emotional…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Child Abuse, Prevention, Foreign Countries
Ipek Ozbay; Yagmur Ozge Ugurelli – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This study aimed to explore stepfamily representation in fairy tales and their animations on YouTube. The data was collected via document analysis in the study. The data source of the research is Grimm's fairy tales which are classical fairy tales. The results demonstrate that stepmothers identify with the stereotypical wicked women, both in the…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Fairy Tales, Animation, Video Technology
Chen, Yang; Zhan, Shenshen; Zhao, Xinyi; Chen, Siyuan; Yin, Huazhan – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Emotional neglect is an under-recognized but relatively common type of childhood maltreatment. Although it has been reported that adolescents will facilitate positive growth after experiencing childhood maltreatment, such as sexual abuse, it is unknown whether adolescents could also get a promotion after experiencing emotional neglect. Thus, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Neglect, Adolescents, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Justin R. Watts; Neale R. Chumbler; Rachita Sharma; Ganesh Baniya – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2023
Our study sought to provide a more nuanced understanding of the significant issues experienced by young adult survivors of child-maltreatment (CM) prior to seeking counseling services. More specifically, we examined differences between survivors of CM and participants with no CM histories related to non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), suicidal…
Descriptors: Mental Health, College Students, Child Abuse, Trauma
Lyndsay N. Jenkins; Heather H. Miller; Sonya Kaminski; Sophia Putzeys – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2023
This conceptual paper makes the case that peer victimization should be considered a potentially traumatic event due to the similarities between peer victimization and trauma in terms of definition, outcomes, theoretical frameworks, and measurement. Furthermore, there is a trend to include peer victimization on surveys measuring adverse childhood…
Descriptors: Victims, Trauma, Bullying, Child Abuse
Vida Vasilj Perkovic; Paula Pedic Duic; Anita Lauri Korajlija – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2025
This study aimed to validate the Croatian version of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire 10-item version (ACE-10) in a sample of 293 emerging adults (mean age 22 years old; 56.9% women). ACE-10 is a self-report retrospective questionnaire that assesses abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. Measures of depression, anxiety, stress,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Young Adults, Child Abuse