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{"title":"Intergenerational development of rumination in adolescents with internalizing disorders: The mediating role of maternal rejecting parenting style and intergenerational trauma","authors":"Xiaoqiang Xiao ,&nbsp;Yuxuan Guo ,&nbsp;Haixi Zuo ,&nbsp;Jingyi Fan ,&nbsp;Jiao Yang ,&nbsp;Hanli Xu ,&nbsp;Yixian Gu ,&nbsp;Shirong Wang ,&nbsp;Lingyi Deng ,&nbsp;Juexi Li ,&nbsp;Peiqi Tang ,&nbsp;Xiaoxia Fan ,&nbsp;Bo Zhou ,&nbsp;Liyuan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107927","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107927","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>As a cognitive vulnerability factor for adolescent internalizing problems, rumination develops through several main mechanisms, with intergenerational transmission being one of the significant mechanisms. However, the specific pathways of intergenerational transmission remain unclear, particularly regarding the contributions of parenting style and intergenerational transmission of trauma.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The study investigates how maternal rumination contributes to the development of rumination in adolescents with internalizing disorders.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>We included 130 pairs of out-patient adolescents with internalizing disorders and their biological mothers. Participants completed self-rating scales for rumination, childhood trauma, maternal parenting styles and anger rumination.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed using Amos 26.0. Subsequently, a bootstrap analysis was employed to examine the mediating effects.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The intergenerational transmission model of rumination showed good fit indices (CMIN/DF = 1.27, GFI = 0.87, RMSEA = 0.05, CFI = 0.96). Indirectly, maternal rumination affected offspring's rumination through a two-fold mediation pathway: higher maternal rumination was associated with increased maternal anger rumination and greater rejecting parenting style, shaping the childhood trauma in offspring, and ultimately resulting in elevated levels of rumination in the offspring; the other path included maternal childhood trauma, which indirectly contributed to offspring rumination by mediating the increase in childhood trauma exposure in the offspring.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This study indicates that the transmission of rumination across generations is not a linear process but is shaped by complex mediators, including anger rumination, rejecting parenting style, and childhood trauma. This research highlights the intra-family cumulative risk mechanisms, which may provide support for targeted family-based interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107927"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Use of research evidence in U.S. state child abuse and neglect policies: 2019–2024","authors":"Patrick O'Neill ,&nbsp;Lauren Kerr ,&nbsp;Jessica Pugel ,&nbsp;Elizabeth C. Long ,&nbsp;Christian M. Connell ,&nbsp;Tenesha Littleton ,&nbsp;Jennie G. Noll ,&nbsp;D. Max Crowley ,&nbsp;J. Taylor Scott","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107915","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107915","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Child abuse and neglect (CAN) inflicts long-term costs on both individuals and society, yet little is known about how state-level legislation incorporates research evidence to address CAN.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The study examined bill- and state-level factors for association with the use of research evidence (URE) in CAN-related legislation.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>CAN-related state legislation introduced between 2019 and 2024 (<em>N</em> = 27,703).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Using multilevel mixed effects modeling, we assessed how bill-level (e.g., bipartisan sponsorship) and state-level (e.g., policy innovativeness) factors predicted the presence of research language in legislation. We also evaluated whether enacted bills were more likely to contain research language.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Policy innovativeness (OR = 1.18, 95% CI [1.02,1.35]), an interaction between policy innovativeness and GSP per capita (OR = 1.19, 95% CI [1.06,1.33]), sponsor/cosponsor count (OR = 1.01, 95% CI [1.00,1.01]), bipartisan (co)sponsorship (OR = 1.30, 95% CI [1.18,1.43]), substance use disorder language (OR = 12.10, 95% CI [10.60,13.90]), social determinants of health language (OR = 6.07, 95% CI [5.28,6.98]), COVID-19 time period (OR = 1.10, 95% CI [1.06,1.14]), and enactment status (OR = 1.27, 95% CI [1.19,1.37]) all significantly predicted increased odds of research language inclusion in bills. Research and development expenditures predicted lower odds (OR = 0.84, 95% CI [0.70,0.997]) of research language inclusion.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Both bill- and state-level factors influence the presence of research language in CAN-related legislation, highlighting the ways that contextual factors may promote evidence-based policymaking. Promoting evidence-based policymaking can help address CAN, reduce CAN rates, and further the reach of CAN-related research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107915"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interactions between social adversities and paranoia among Chinese adolescents: An investigation using network approaches","authors":"Qiuyu Tang ,&nbsp;Yue Xu ,&nbsp;Jiaxi Gong ,&nbsp;Xiaoqi Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107928","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107928","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Social adversity is recognized as a risk factor for paranoia. However, few studies have examined multiple forms of social adversities experienced by adolescents while differentiating their unique associations with paranoia. Furthermore, the interaction between social adversities and their potential influence on paranoia remains unclear.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To investigate the interactions among histories of child maltreatment, concurrent social adversities, and paranoia, and to explore the potential directions of these relationships.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>A valid sample of 1643 Chinese adolescents aged 13–18 (50.0% female) was recruited at baseline, of whom 1077 were reassessed after 5–6 months.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Self-reported experiences of child maltreatment, bullying victimization, and adverse life events, along with levels of paranoia, were evaluated. Regularized partial correlation networks (RPCNs) and directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) were constructed at each time point.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>At both time points, paranoia was located at the center of the RPCNs, connecting different clusters of adversities, and possessed the highest closeness, betweenness, and bridge centralities. Moreover, paranoia was most closely linked with relational and verbal bullying and relationship pressure. The DAGs further indicated that relational and verbal bullying and relationship pressure might predict paranoia, which in turn links to other adverse experiences.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Our findings support the conceptualization of paranoia as an interpersonal construct that influences and is influenced by social interactions (particularly adversities characterized by negative judgments and rejection). Interventions should focus on enhancing interpersonal functioning and alleviating threat beliefs to disrupt the vicious cycle between paranoia and social adversities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107928"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and the probability of out-of-home care placement: A nationwide study of children using small-area data","authors":"Michelle Voersaa Fisker ,&nbsp;Rolf Lyneborg Lund","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Background: Research has consistently shown that neighborhood are associated with child maltreatment; however, fewer studies have explored how such contextual factors shape the probability of out-of-home care placements, particularly in welfare-oriented systems like Denmark's. Objective: This study examines the extent to which neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage contributes to children's probability of out-of-home placement. Participants and Setting: The study draws on full-population register data from Denmark, encompassing all children placed in out-of-home care aged 0–17 between 2011 and 2022. Methods: Multilevel linear probability models were used to estimate the association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and out-of-home care placement probability, adjusting for a rich set of family and individual covariates. Fixed effects for municipalities were included to account for administrative differences. Results: Findings show that neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is significantly associated with the probability of out-of-home placement, even after adjusting for family and individual factors. However, the effect is modest in size and attenuates after full adjustment. Notably, placement probability is elevated even at moderate levels of disadvantage and flattens at the highest levels. These patterns likely reflect a combination of compositional confounding, selective institutional attention, and contextual buffering mechanisms. Conclusions: Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage plays a role in shaping child welfare outcomes in Denmark, though its effect is contingent on broader institutional and social dynamics. These findings underscore the need to consider context-specific welfare logics when examining neighborhood effects on child welfare interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107925"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The influence of housing, education and employment trajectories on mental health and behavioral outcomes for youth receiving child welfare and community services","authors":"Michael Ungar ,&nbsp;Jan Höltge","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107897","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107897","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>While prior studies of youth who receive child welfare and community services (CWCS) has shown this population to be at greater risk for negative psychological and social outcomes, this study examines potential resilience-enabling patterns of housing and work and educational engagement that predict positive development while services are being accessed and after services end.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>A longitudinal sample consisting of 169 youth from Nova Scotia, Canada, who were receiving CWCS were surveyed annually from 2022 to 2024. At baseline, the mean age was 16.49 years (SD = 1.48, range = 14–19), 56.00% females, 78.10% self-identified as White, 85.50% were engaged in work and/or education, and 90.50% lived in self-directed or supported housing provided by child welfare and/or community services. Participants were grouped based on their trajectories in (A) housing and (B) engagement in work and/or education across three annual assessments. Repeated-measures ANOVAs examined within-group changes over time and between-group differences in temporal patterns of risk exposure, access to psychosocial and institutional resources, and behavioral outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>In total, 62.10% of participants remained consistently engaged in work and/or education throughout the study, 5.90% were consistently not engaged, 19.00% transitioned from engaged to disengaged, and 13.00% transitioned from disengaged to engaged by the end of the study. The majority of participants, 78.40%, lived in self-directed or supported housing throughout the study, while 10.80% transitioned into unstable housing and another 10.80% transitioned from unstable to stable housing during the study. Significant differences were found between housing trajectories regarding temporal patterns of future orientation, substance use, psychological resilience, and caregiver support. However, no significant differences were observed between the engagement in work and/or education trajectories. Within-group differences were found for certain housing and engagement trajectories across several variables.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The results show that helping youth who receive child welfare and community services transition into and maintain stable housing may lead to improvements in access to resilience-enabling resources that support positive development and prosocial behavioral outcomes. A pattern of housing stability for youth receiving services is also associated with decreases in risk exposure, while transitioning to unstable housing is predictive of increased substance use and decreased positive future orientation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107897"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Violence against children: An application of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) to the Crime Survey for England and Wales","authors":"Ferhat Tura ,&nbsp;Andromachi Tseloni ,&nbsp;Lisa Tompson","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107930","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107930","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Violence victimization in childhood is a significant public health and social justice concern. Yet there is limited evidence on how multiple, overlapping identities relate to children's experiences of non-familial violence.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>This study examines differences in violence victimization rates among children in different social groups. In doing so, we seek to demonstrate the application of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) as a method for intersectional analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>The study uses nine years of pooled data from the 10–15 Crime Survey for England and Wales (2011–2019), including a total sample of 26,106 children aged 10–15 years old.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Logistic MAIHDA models were employed to analyse the likelihood of experiencing violence victimization across intersectional social groups defined by combinations of four social identities (sex, age, ethnicity, disability status).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Most of the differences in violence victimization across intersectional social groups are explained by individual characteristics like disability, sex, ethnicity, and age. Interaction effects between these characteristics add little beyond their separate (additive) impacts. Predicted probabilities show that disabled boys are among the most likely to experience violence victimization.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The study underscores the need for targeted policies and interventions to reduce violence against children, particularly those who are disabled. It also serves as a case study for researchers interested in using MAIHDA to explore intersectionality in crime against children (or any other outcomes) and inform harm prevention strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107930"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146079201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Longitudinal links between parental harsh discipline and executive function in adolescence: Moderating role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia","authors":"Huayu Ji ,&nbsp;Yiji Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107918","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107918","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Although the link between parental harsh discipline and children's executive function has been established, it remains unclear whether key aspects of parental harsh discipline – corporal punishment and psychological aggression – are uniquely related to adolescent executive function, and whether these relations vary by individual vagal tone as indexed by resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA).</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This longitudinal study aimed to clarify above questions.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and Setting</h3><div>A total of 233 Chinese adolescents (<em>M</em>_age = 12.86 years, 51.50% female-) participated in this study.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>In September 2024 (T1), participants rated parental corporal punishment, psychological aggression, and executive function. They also participated in a 3-minute resting electrocardiogram (ECG) recording to assess resting RSA. In March 2025 (T2), they rated executive function again.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Parental corporal punishment was negatively related to T2 executive function (<em>β</em> =– −.18, <em>p</em> &lt; .05), whereas psychological aggression showed no significant association (<em>β</em> = −.06, <em>p</em> = .45). Moreover, resting RSA moderated these relations (for corporal punishment and executive function: <em>β</em> = .14, <em>p</em> &lt; .05; for psychological aggression and executive function: <em>β</em> = .22, <em>p</em> &lt; .001). That is, corporal punishment and psychological aggression at T1 were both negatively related to T2 executive function among adolescents with lower resting RSA, but not among those with higher resting RSA.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The findings demonstrate that aspects of parental harsh discipline have distinct associations with adolescent executive function, and highlight the necessity of incorporating physiological markers of individual differences, particularly resting RSA, to better understand executive function in adolescents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107918"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146067885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations between maternal child maltreatment predict their child's health service use? Results from the I-CALM study","authors":"M. Trott ,&nbsp;S. Kisely ,&nbsp;J. Najman ,&nbsp;N. Reid ,&nbsp;L. Neelakantan ,&nbsp;R. Moran ,&nbsp;A. Edwards ,&nbsp;C. Bull","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107917","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107917","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Child maltreatment (CM) is associated with lifelong adverse outcomes but less is known about its intergenerational consequences. As these consequences often manifest as poor health, examining health service use provides an objective measure of clinically significant morbidity and healthcare burden in children.</div></div><div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>We investigated whether maternal CM history predicted offspring health service utilisation using an intergenerational dataset.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>Multigenerational retrospective cohort study.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We analysed data from the Intergenerational Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (I-CALM) study, comprising 1696 women who gave birth to 3296 children in Queensland, Australia, between 2008 and 2024. Maternal CM was defined using government records as notified or substantiated. Linked statewide records provided offspring health outcomes, including hospital admissions or emergency department (ED) presentations. Logistic and negative binomial regressions assessed dichotomous and count outcomes, adjusting for child age, gender, and significant maternal covariates.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Maternal notified and substantiated CM were significantly associated with higher risks of offspring ED presentations for deliberate self-harm (OR = 2.69, 95% CI 1.39–5.20; OR = 2.57, 95% CI 1.15–5.75, respectively). Maternal CM was also linked to greater odds of offspring hospital admissions for external injury (OR = 1.45–1.64). Associations between maternal CM and increased number of total ED presentations were also found.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Maternal CM is significantly associated with offspring hospital and ED use, particularly for injuries and deliberate self-harm, highlighting intergenerational health risks. Routine identification and targeted support for families affected by CM may help break cycles of adversity and reduce preventable health service burden.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107917"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146023945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Innocence betrayed: The impact of grooming and family betrayal on trauma symptoms in adult survivors of child sexual abuse","authors":"Molly R. Wolf ,&nbsp;Braden K. Linn ,&nbsp;Doyle K. Pruitt ,&nbsp;Tracy Leet","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107914","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107914","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This study examined the relationships between different forms of sexual grooming, emotional betrayal, and trauma symptoms among adult survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA).</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>An anonymous online retrospective survey was completed by 342 adult CSA survivors. Participants reported on three types of grooming methods used by perpetrators (Verbal Coercion, Threats/Violence, and Drugs/Alcohol) and two types of emotional betrayal (Perpetrator Betrayal and Family Betrayal). Path analysis was conducted to examine the direct and indirect effects of grooming types on trauma symptoms through both forms of betrayal.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Grooming that involved Threats and/or Violence was significantly associated with higher levels of Family Betrayal (β = 0.32, <em>p</em> &lt; .001), which in turn predicted greater trauma symptom severity in adulthood (β = 0.41, <em>p</em> &lt; .001). In contrast, Perpetrator Betrayal was not a significant mediator (<em>p</em> = .12).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Survivors who felt betrayed by caregivers during or after CSA exhibited more severe trauma symptoms later in life. This finding suggests that the breach of safety and trust within the caregiving environment may exert a deeper and more enduring influence on psychological functioning than the betrayal by the perpetrator alone.</div><div>Institutional Review Board (IRB Approval # 00003128)</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107914"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146023942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender inequality and adolescent bullying victimization among 69 countries and its effect modification by corporal punishment prohibiting laws","authors":"Mariko Hosozawa ,&nbsp;Naho Yamane ,&nbsp;Sumiyo Okawa ,&nbsp;Hiromi Obara ,&nbsp;Hiroyasu Iso ,&nbsp;Ai Ikeda","doi":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.107909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Bullying victimization among adolescents is a major public health concern, and its prevalence varies considerably across countries. While country-level economic factors are often cited to explain this variation, the roles of gender inequality and national legal frameworks remain underexplored.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To examine the association between country-level gender inequality and bullying victimization among adolescents across 69 middle- and high-income countries and whether national laws prohibiting corporal punishment modify this association.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>Data were obtained from the Programme for International Student Assessment 2018, a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 15-year-old students.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The primary outcome was the victimization score, derived from six self-reported experiences of bullying victimization. Multilevel regression analysis was used to explore the association between the Gender Inequality Index (GII) and the outcome. We also analyzed effect modification by national laws prohibiting corporal punishment (no/partial; fully banned for ≤10 years; fully banned for &gt;10 years).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The study included 433,836 students (50.6% female). Higher GII was associated with increased victimization (b = 0.52; 95% CI, 0.32–0.73 per one-standard deviation increase), explaining 35.6% of the country-level variance. This association was stronger for boys and was modified by corporal punishment laws. Compared to countries with no or partial prohibition, countries with full prohibition enacted for ≤10 years exhibited an attenuated association. This attenuating effect was not observed in countries with a full prohibition for &gt;10 years.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Reducing societal gender inequality and promoting the full prohibition of corporal punishment may be relevant strategies for mitigating adolescent bullying victimization, particularly for boys.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51343,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse & Neglect","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 107909"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146023944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}