*Data Available*: Adolescent Outcomes of Physically Abused School Children (1997-2002)

["Andres Arroyo" <aa17@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
(NDACAN) at Cornell University is pleased to announce the availability of
the data for the study entitled:

Adolescent Outcomes of Physically Abused School Children
(1997-2002)
[NDACAN Dataset #117]

Investigator: Salzinger, S. 

The User's Guide PDF for these data contains the codebook and is
available for free download at this page:
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/Ndacan/Datasets/Abstracts/DatasetAbstract_117.html
There you will also find a link to ordering instructions. There is no
charge to access these data.

Abstract: This study is designed to assess the outcomes in mid to
late adolescence of preadolescent physically abused and matched
non-maltreated children first studied at ages 9-12 years. The outcome
domains were Externalizing Problem Behavior, Internalizing Problems and
Emotional Disorder, Quality of Personal Relationships, Risk Behavior, and
Aggression/Delinquency. For each, a model was proposed in which the path
from preadolescent physical abuse to outcome is examined with respect to
three classes of mediating variables hypothesized to protect against or
exacerbate the effects of the abuse. These classes of mediators,
comprised of variables chosen on the basis of the contributors' previous
abuse studies and other data in the child development literature, were
all measured in preadolescence. They are conceptualized as individual
(e.g., behavior problems, social behavior, social cognition),
interpersonal (e.g., social status among peers, attachment, parenting),
and contextual (e.g., family adversity, maternal psychopathology). Each
model is retested with preadolescent exposure to family violence and
parental perceptions of community violence added to child abuse as the
causal variable. 
   The children studied as adolescents were re-recruited from
the 100 confirmed cases of physical abuse first recruited when they were
preadolescents from the NYC Child Welfare Administration Register and 100
non-maltreated classmates matched case by case for gender, age,
ethnicity, and SES. They were assessed in preadolescence by means of
classroom sociometry and peer behavior ratings, by individual child
interviews, by teacher and parent ratings of behavior, and by parent
interviews and questionnaires on family demographics, adversity, family
conflict, including domestic violence, and on parenting discipline
practices. The assessments of outcome, as close as possible to age 17,
were carried out by means of adolescent interviews and questionnaires,
teacher and parent ratings, parent interviews and questionnaires, and an
interview and questionnaire administered to a best friend of each
adolescent. 
   Preliminary results show that the abused adolescents
continue to be at higher risk than controls for a variety of poor
outcomes such as behavior problems, depression, delinquency, and some
high-risk behaviors. It also appears that they are more likely to be
exposed to family violence in adolescence.
   Not all abused children have poor outcomes, but as a group,
they are demonstrably at risk. This study's main purpose was to identify
some important factors influencing the path from preadolescent abuse to
adolescent outcome and thereby to target possible points where
intervention in childhood might avert some of abuse's costly individual
and societal consequences. Those analyses are currently underway.

http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/Ndacan/Datasets/Abstracts/DatasetAbstract_117.html

Sincerely,
 Andres Arroyo, Archiving Assistant
 National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)
 Beebe Hall -FLDC, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
 tel. 607-255-7799 | fax 607-255-8562 | www.ndacan.cornell.edu