Parsing dimensions of family violence exposure in early childhood: Shared and specific contributions to emergent psychopathology and impairment.

ABSTRACT: Early childhood exposure to family violence predicts increased risk for psychopathology. However, violence between partners and towards children often co-occur. This complicates efforts to determine how experiences of family violence contribute to early mental health problems. Utilizing mother-report data on harsh parenting and intimate partner violence (IPV) from two large community-based, socioeconomically and ethnically diverse samples of 3-5-year-old children, we illustrate the value of a bifactor method for characterizing a family climate in which verbal and physical violence are more chronic and pervasive among family members. In our Calibration sample (N = 1,179), we demonstrate the fit of a bifactor model with a shared violence factor reflecting violence among partners and towards

SUBMITTER: Briggs-Gowan MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7328511 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature