| Potential mediators of adjustment for preschool children exposed to intimate partner violence. |
| Summary: Examines how children’s post-traumatic stress reactions may mediate the relationship between violence exposure and internalising and externalising adjustment problems. 120 mothers from the US and Canada with children aged 4-6 years provided information about themselves and their children. Found that on average, mothers reported 191 instances of intimate partner violence in the past year. There was a partial mediating effect of traumatic stress symptoms on externalising problems and full mediating effects for internalising and total adjustment difficulties. |
| Publication details: Child Abuse and Neglect (Vol.36, Iss.9) September 2012 pp 671-675 |
| Authors: Laura E. Miller, Kathryn H. Howell and Sandra A. Graham-Bermann |
