 The effects of domestic violence on children's behavior problems: Assessing the moderating roles of poverty and marital statusJeong Ah Yoo and Chien-Chung Huang Children and Youth Services Review, 2012, vol. 34, issue 12, 2464-2473 Abstract: Using four waves across 5years of a recent longitudinal dataset, this study examined whether the effects of domestic violence at Year 1 on children's behavior problems at Year 5 differed by poverty and marital status. Findings from multiple-group structural equation modeling revealed that children in poor families were less affected by domestic violence than those in non-poor families, for both externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. Children in unmarried-mother families were more affected by domestic violence for externalizing behavior problems, whereas they were less affected for internalizing behavior problems, compared to children in married-mother families. Findings from this study highlight that the effects of domestic violence on the behavior problems of children vary by socioeconomic categories, such as poverty and marital status, and, therefore, that children's and their mothers' needs in violent families may vary widely as well. Keywords: Domestic violence; Children; Externalizing behavior problems; Internalizing behavior problems; Poverty status; Marital status (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:34:y:2012:i:12:p:2464-2473 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.09.014 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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