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.
Yonsei School of Social Welfare, Seoul, Korea cemery@yonsei.ac.kr.
Clifton R
CR
Emery
Yonsei School of Social Welfare, Seoul, Korea.
Tatiana
T
Eremina
Yonsei School of Social Welfare, Seoul, Korea.
Hye Lin
HL
Yang
Yonsei School of Social Welfare, Seoul, Korea.
Changgeun
C
Yoo
Yonsei School of Social Welfare, Seoul, Korea.
Jieun
J
Yoo
Yonsei School of Social Welfare, Seoul, Korea.
Ja Kyung
JK
Jang
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D066106:Seoul; D012927:Social Control, Informal
ISC_CM; child abuse; informal social control; injury