The cycle of abuse

• Verfasst von: Mielke, Emilia Louisa L. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Neukel, Corinne [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Fuchs, Anna [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Spieß, Karen [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Zietlow, Anna-Lena [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Bertsch, Katja [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Reck, Corinna [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Möhler, Eva [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Herpertz, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The cycle of abuse
• Titelzusatz: emotional availability in resilient and non-resilient mothers with early life maltreatment
• Verf.angabe: Emilia Louisa Mielke, Corinne Neukel, Anna Fuchs, Karen Hillmann, Anna-Lena Zietlow, Katja Bertsch, Corinna Reck, Eva Moehler, Sabine C. Herpertz
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: September 16, 2020
• Umfang: 8 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 18.01.2021
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Psychopathology
• Ort Quelle: Basel : Karger, 1968
• Jahr Quelle: 2020
• Band/Heft Quelle: 53(2020), 5/6, Seite 298-305
• ISSN Quelle: 1423-033X
• DOI: doi:10.1159/000509904
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: association
• Sach-SW: borderline personality-disorder
• Sach-SW: childhood maltreatment
• Sach-SW: Early adversity
• Sach-SW: health
• Sach-SW: history
• Sach-SW: impact
• Sach-SW: Intergenerational transmission of violence
• Sach-SW: maternal depression
• Sach-SW: Mother-child interaction
• Sach-SW: neglect
• Sach-SW: Physical and sexual abuse
• Sach-SW: psychopathology
• Sach-SW: risk
• Sach-SW: Trauma
• K10plus-PPN: 174484884X

Abstract

Background: Early life maltreatment (ELM) has a high risk of transmission across generations, known as "the cycle of abuse." ELM is also an important risk factor for developing mental disorders, and having a mental disorder increases the risk of child abuse. Both the abuse potential in mothers with ELM and in mothers with a history of mental disorders might be associated with a disturbed mother-child interaction. Objective: The current study examined differences in emotional availability between mothers with a history of ELM and previous or current mental disorders (non-resilient), mothers with ELM without mental disorders (resilient), and control mothers without ELM and without mental disorders. Methods: Thirty-three non-resilient mothers, 18 resilient mothers, and 37 control mothers and their 5- to 12-year-old children participated in a standardized mother-child interaction task. Videotaped interactions were rated by three independent, trained raters based on the Emotional Availability Scales (EA Scales) and compared between the groups. Results: The non-resilient mothers and their children showed reduced maternal sensitivity, structuring, non-intrusiveness, non-hostility, responsiveness, and involvement compared to the resilient mothers and their children and the control mothers and their children (p = 0.006, eta(2)(p) = 0.12). No differences on any of the EA Scales were found between resilient mothers and control mothers. Conclusions: These deficits in mother-child interaction in non-resilient mothers might contribute to mechanisms that could explain the cycle of abuse. Interestingly, resilient mothers, who did not develop a mental disorder despite having experienced ELM, did not show these deficits. Thus, prevention programs promoting resilience might be a key to break the cycle of abuse.