Development pathways from abusive parenting to delinquency: The mediating role of depression and aggression |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Social Work, Binghamton University-State University of New York, USA;2. College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, USA;3. Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, USA;4. School of Social Work, Georgia State University, USA;1. School of Criminology, University of Montreal, Canada;2. Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada;3. School of Psycho-education, University of Montreal, Canada;4. School of Psychology, Laval University, Canada;5. Departments of Pediatrics and Psychology, University of Montreal, Canada;6. School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science, University College Dublin, Ireland;7. Bordeaux Population Health Research Centre, INSERM U1219, University of Bordeaux, France;8. School of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada;9. Research Unit on Children''s Psychosocial Maladjustment, Canada;1. University of Cyprus, Cyprus;2. Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands, and Örebro University, Sweden;3. Örebro University, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | This study investigated the long-term relationship between abusive parenting and adolescent mental health, and the path to delinquent behavior. Longitudinal data from 5th through 7th graders from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS) were analyzed to examine if abusive parenting was a predictor of early adolescent delinquency behavior, via aggression and depression as mediating factors. The results were as follows. First, parental abuse (both emotional and physical) was found to have significant effects on children's psychosocial factors (aggression and depression), while parental neglect (both emotional and physical) had significant effects on depression alone and not on aggression. Second, aggression exerted significant effects on both violent and non-violent delinquent behaviors, while depression had a significant effect on only non-violent delinquent behaviors. Third, children's psychosocial factors (aggression and depression) played significant mediating roles between earlier abusive parenting and delinquent behaviors. Fourth, for children living in a family with their grandparents, paths from abusive parenting, psychosocial adaptation, and later delinquent behaviors were not significant, implying that living with grandparents played a protective factor in these relationships. |
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| Keywords: | Abuse Neglect Depression Aggression Delinquency behaviors |
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