Thriving despite Parental Physical Abuse in Adolescence

A Two-Wave Latent Transition Analysis on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Violence-Resilience Outcome Indicators

Bibliographic Data

ID15712997
AuthorsWassilis Kassis (0000-0002-7235-2182, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, corresponding author), Dilan Aksoy (0000-0001-6484-7807, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Céline A Favre (0000-0003-1675-4280, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Clarissa Janousch (0000-0002-4160-9758, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Sibylle Artz (University of Victoria), Sibylle Talmon-Gros Artz (University of Victoria)
Year2022
Volume9
Issue4
Pages553-553
Publication date2022-04-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChildren (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2227-9067 • E-ISSN: 2227-9067
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/children9040553
PMID35455596
OpenAlexW4224101737
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited115

Internationally, about 25% of all children experience physical abuse by their parents. Despite the numerous odds against them, about 30% of adolescents who have experienced even the most serious forms of physical abuse by their parents escape the vicious family violence cycle. In this study, we analyzed longitudinally the data from a sample of N = 1767 seventh-grade high school students in Switzerland on physical abuse by their parents. We did this by conducting an online questionnaire twice within the school year. We found that in our sample, about 30% of the participating adolescents' parents had physically abused them. We considered violence resilience a multi-systemic construct that included the absence of psychopathology on one hand and both forms of well-being (psychological and subjective) on the other. Our latent construct included both feeling good (hedonic indicators, such as high levels of self-esteem and low levels of depression/anxiety and dissociation) and doing well (eudaimonic indicators, such as high levels of self-determination and self-efficacy as well as low levels of aggression toward peers). By applying a person-oriented analytical approach via latent transition analysis with a sub-sample of students who experienced physical abuse (n w2 = 523), we identified and compared longitudinally four distinct violence-resilience patterns and their respective trajectories. By applying to the field of resilience, one of the most compelling insights of well-being research (Deci & Ryan, 2001), we identified violence resilience as a complex, multidimensional latent construct that concerns hedonic and eudaimonic well-being and is not solely based on terms of psychopathology

Developmental psychology · Latent growth modeling · Outcome (game theory · Psychological resilience · Psychotherapist · Resilience (materials science · Thriving · Child Abuse and Trauma · Clinical Psychology · Family and Disability Support Research · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology