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Substantiated Childhood Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in Young Adulthood: A Birth Cohort Study

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Little is known about the associations between various types of childhood maltreatment and multiple forms of intimate partner violence victimization in early adulthood. This study examines the extent to which childhood experiences of maltreatment increase the risk for intimate partner violence victimization in early adulthood. Data for the present study are from 3322 young adults (55 % female) of the Mater Hospital-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy with the mean age of 20.6 years. The Mater Hospital-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy is a prospective Australian pre-birth cohort study of mothers consecutively recruited during their first antenatal clinic visit at Brisbane’s Mater Hospital from 1981 through to 1983. Participants completed the Composite Abuse Scale at 21-year follow-up and linked this dataset to agency recorded substantiated cases of childhood maltreatment. In adjusted models, the odds of reporting emotional intimate partner violence victimization were 1.84, 2.64 and 3.19 times higher in physically abused, neglected and emotionally abused children, respectively. Similarly, the odds of physical intimate partner violence victimization were 1.76, 2.31, 2.74 and 2.76 times higher in those children who had experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and emotional abuse, respectively. Harassment was 1.63 times higher in emotionally abused children. The odds of severe combined abuse were 3.97 and 4.62 times greater for emotionally abused and neglected children, respectively. The strongest associations involved reports of child emotional abuse and neglect and multiple forms of intimate partner violence victimization in young adulthood. Childhood maltreatment is a chronic adversity that is associated with specific and multiple forms of intimate partner violence victimization in adulthood.

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We would like to extend our acknowledgments to the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy mother-child pairs, the research team, National Health and Medical Research Council and Australian Research Council for subsequent funding of the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy. We are also grateful to the International Postgraduate Scholarships of the Australian government and The University of Queensland for sponsoring the principal author of the study. AAA conceived of the study, designed analyses strategies, performed initial statistical analyses, interpreted data and drafted the manuscript; SK carried out final statistical analyses and provided comments to the manuscript; GW and AC provided comments to the manuscript; JMN has been a principal investigator of the Mater Hospital-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy, provided comments and supervised the overall progress of the current manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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The Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council and Australian Research Council (NHMRC grant #1009460) and the principal investigator is in receipt of an International Postgraduate Research and The University of Queensland Centennial Scholarships. The funding sources had no roles in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of the report.

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  1. School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Public Health Building, Herston, Queensland, 4006, Australia

    Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Gail Marilyn Williams & Jackob Moses Najman

  2. School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Queensland, 4102, Australia

    Steve Kisely

  3. Departments of Psychiatry, Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

    Steve Kisely

  4. School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland, 4102, Australia

    Alexandra Marie Clavarino

  5. School of Social Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia

    Jackob Moses Najman

  6. Queensland Alcohol and Drug Research and Education Center, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, 4006, Australia

    Jackob Moses Najman

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The Mater Hospital-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy has been approved by the Human Ethics Review Committee of the University of Queensland. Further ethical approval has also been obtained from the Human Ethics Review Committee of the University of Queensland to link substantiated child maltreatment data to the 21-year follow-up of the Mater Hospital-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy.

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The 22 items taken from the Composite Abuse Scale and used in this study with respect to each form of intimate partner violence

Physical intimate partner violence victimization

 Slapped me

 Threatened to hit me or throw something at me

 Pushed, grabbed or shoved me

 Hit or tried to hit me with something

 Kicked me, bit me or hit with a fist

Emotional intimate partner violence victimization

 Told me that I wasn’t good enough

 Tried to turn my family, friends and/or children against me

 Blamed me for causing his/her violent behavior

 Tried to keep me from seeing or talking to my family

 Became upset if dinner/housework wasn’t done when they thought it should be

 Tried to turn my family, friends and children against me

 Told me that I was stupid

 Told me that no one else would ever want me

 Told me that I was ugly

 Tried to keep me from seeing or talking to my family

 Tried to convince my family, friends and children that I was crazy

Harassment

 Harassed me over the telephone

 Followed me

 Hung around outside my house

 Harassed me at work

Severe Combined Abuse

 Used a knife or gun or other weapon

 Raped me

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Abajobir, A.A., Kisely, S., Williams, G.M. et al. Substantiated Childhood Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization in Young Adulthood: A Birth Cohort Study. J Youth Adolescence 46, 165–179 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-016-0558-3

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