Protective Informal Social Control of Child Maltreatment and Child Abuse Injury in Seoul.

Previous findings on the relationship between neighborhood informal social control and child abuse have been mixed. We implemented a scale created by Emery, Trung, and Wu to study protective informal social control of child maltreatment (ISC_CM) by neighbors in a three-stage random cluster sample of 541 families in Seoul, South Korea. Random-effects regression models found that protective ISC_CM significantly moderated the relationship between very severe abuse and child injuries. Very severe abuse was associated with fewer injuries when levels of protective ISC_CM were higher. Implications are discussed. © The Author(s) 2014.

Citation

Clifton R Emery, Tatiana Eremina, Hye Lin Yang, Changgeun Yoo, Jieun Yoo, Ja Kyung Jang. Protective Informal Social Control of Child Maltreatment and Child Abuse Injury in Seoul. Journal of interpersonal violence. 2015 Nov;30(18):3324-39

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PMID: 25392376

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