
The association between childhood maltreatment, mental health problems, and aggression in justice-involved boys
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- Machteld Hoeve, Olivier Colins (UGent) , Eva A. Mulder, Rolf Loeber, Geert Jan J. M. Stams and Robert R. J. M. Vermeiren
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- The link between childhood maltreatment and adolescent aggression is well documented; yet, studies examining potential mechanisms that explain this association are limited. In the present study, we tested the association between childhood maltreatment and adolescent aggression in boys in juvenile justice facilities (N = 767) and examined the contribution of mental health problems to this relationship. Data on childhood maltreatment, mental health problems, and aggression were collected by means of self-report measures and structural equation models were used to test mediation models. We found that mental health problems mediated the link between maltreatment and aggression. Results demonstrated different pathways depending on the type of aggression examined. The association between childhood maltreatment and reactive aggression was fully mediated by a variety of mental health problems and for proactive aggression the association was partially mediated by mental health problems. We also found that reactive and proactive aggression partially mediated the association between maltreatment and mental health problems. These findings suggest that a transactional model may best explain the negative effects of childhood trauma on mental health problems and (in particular reactive) aggression. In addition, our findings add to the existing evidence that reactive and proactive aggression have different etiological pathways. Aggr. Behav. 41:488-501, 2015. (C) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Keywords
- POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER, DETAINED MALE-ADOLESCENTS, VOICE DISC-IV, PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS, PROACTIVE AGGRESSION, REACTIVE AGGRESSION, JUVENILE-OFFENDERS, TRAUMA EXPOSURE, SUBSTANCE USE, FIT INDEXES, childhood trauma, psychopathology, aggression, youth, forensic
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8588110
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- Hoeve, Machteld, et al. “The Association between Childhood Maltreatment, Mental Health Problems, and Aggression in Justice-Involved Boys.” AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, vol. 41, no. 5, Wiley-blackwell, 2015, pp. 488–501, doi:10.1002/ab.21586.
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- Hoeve, M., Colins, O., Mulder, E. A., Loeber, R., Stams, G. J. J. M., & Vermeiren, R. R. J. M. (2015). The association between childhood maltreatment, mental health problems, and aggression in justice-involved boys. AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, 41(5), 488–501. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21586
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- Hoeve, Machteld, Olivier Colins, Eva A. Mulder, Rolf Loeber, Geert Jan J. M. Stams, and Robert R. J. M. Vermeiren. 2015. “The Association between Childhood Maltreatment, Mental Health Problems, and Aggression in Justice-Involved Boys.” AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR 41 (5): 488–501. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21586.
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- Hoeve, Machteld, Olivier Colins, Eva A. Mulder, Rolf Loeber, Geert Jan J. M. Stams, and Robert R. J. M. Vermeiren. 2015. “The Association between Childhood Maltreatment, Mental Health Problems, and Aggression in Justice-Involved Boys.” AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR 41 (5): 488–501. doi:10.1002/ab.21586.
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- 1.Hoeve M, Colins O, Mulder EA, Loeber R, Stams GJJM, Vermeiren RRJM. The association between childhood maltreatment, mental health problems, and aggression in justice-involved boys. AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR. 2015;41(5):488–501.
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- [1]M. Hoeve, O. Colins, E. A. Mulder, R. Loeber, G. J. J. M. Stams, and R. R. J. M. Vermeiren, “The association between childhood maltreatment, mental health problems, and aggression in justice-involved boys,” AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 488–501, 2015.
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