3-191 - Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Developmental Trajectories from Childhood Maltreatment to Adverse Adolescent Outcomes

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Childhood maltreatment has been described as one of the biggest threats to normative child development (Cicchetti, 2013). This is largely due to decades of research detailing its far-reaching negative influence on various aspects of childhood and adolescent functioning including but not limited to increased risk for externalizing and other forms of psychopathology, substance use, revictimization, and impaired decision making (Cicchetti & Toth, 2016). However, not all maltreated children go on to develop adverse outcomes and it is important to gain a more complete understanding of the various risk and protective factors that help to predict their developmental trajectories. This is particularly important in adolescence, a period of vulnerability and opportunity during which maladaptation can be targeted for intervention. Additionally, the use of advanced statistical methods to model these developmental trajectories further aids in enhancing our understanding of the influence of maltreatment on adolescent outcomes. That is the focus of this symposium.

The first paper examines whether friendship quality mediates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and adolescent psychopathology, substance use, and revictimization using structural equation modeling (SEM); the second paper utilizes SEM to investigate links between childhood maltreatment, attention problems in middle childhood, and early adulthood decision making; the third paper makes use of growth-based trajectory modeling and multinomial logistic regression to illuminate the role of childhood maltreatment and other social-ecological factors in predicting externalizing behavior trajectories across adolescence. Together, these studies contribute to our understanding of risk and protective factors that influence the developmental trajectories of maltreated children into adolescence.

Sub Unit

• Developmental Psychopathology

Chair

• Michelle Patrice Desir, University of Minnesota

Discussant

• Sheree Toth, University of Rochester

Individual Presentations

• Child Maltreatment, Psychopathology, Substance Use, and Revictimization: Do Friends Play a Role? - Presenting Author: Michelle Patrice Desir, University of Minnesota; Non-Presenting Author: Fred Rogosch, University of Rochester; Non-Presenting Author: Dante Cicchetti, University of Minnesota

• Childhood attention and maltreatment experiences predict decision making performance in early adulthood - Presenting Author: Jennifer M. Warmingham, Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester; Non-Presenting Author: Elizabeth D. Handley, Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester; Non-Presenting Author: Justin Russotti, Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester; Non-Presenting Author: Fred Rogosch, University of Rochester; Non-Presenting Author: Dante Cicchetti, University of Minnesota

• Maltreatment as a potent social–ecological predictor of externalizing behavior trajectories across adolescence - Presenting Author: Caleb Figge, DePaul University; Non-Presenting Author: Cecilia Martinez-Torteya, Universidad de Monterrey; Non-Presenting Author: Jessica Weeks, University of Utah