@article{371,
  keywords = {Child behavior, Violence/trauma/child adversity (e.g. ACE)},
  author = {Chien-Chung Huang and Lih-Rong Wang and Corinne Warrener},
  title = {Effects of Domestic Violence on Behavior Problems of Preschool-aged Children: Do Maternal Mental Health and Parenting Mediate the Effects?},
  abstract = {<p>Using the first four waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this article examined the effects of mothers who experienced domestic violence at Year 1 on the externalizing and internalizing behavior problems of children at Year 5 and investigated whether maternal mental health and parenting at Year 3 mediated those effects. Findings from structural equation modeling showed partial support for the hypothesized mediation effects. Consistent with the spillover hypothesis, domestic violence at Year 1 had a direct effect on maternal mental health at Year 3, which had direct effects on children{\textquoteright}s externalizing behavior problems at Year 5. Likewise, domestic violence at Year 1 had direct effects on parenting behavior and spanking at Year 3, and both parenting behavior and spanking then had direct effects on children{\textquoteright}s externalizing and internalizing behavior problems at Year 5. Domestic violence at Year 1 had direct effects on children{\textquoteright}s externalizing and internalizing behavior problems at Year 5. These results suggest that there are long-term effects of domestic violence on the behavior problems of preschool-aged children and that early interventions are needed to prevent later problems among children in families experiencing domestic violence.</p>
},
  year = {2010},
  journal = {Children and Youth Services Review},
  volume = {32},
  number = {10},
  pages = {1317-1323},
  url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740910001337},
}