Abstract
Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Child's Cognitive Development - Results from the Evaluation of the Home Visiting Program "Pro Kind" Intimate partner violence (IVP) is a socially relevant problem area of high prevalence. Direct or indirect IVP leads to well documented problems in child socioemotional development. Longitudinal studies on influences of IVP on child's cognitive development are rare. The present study adds to close this gap. We analyze data from n = 535 families living under psychosocial risk conditions. All families took part in the evaluation of the home visiting program "Pro Kind". We administered one item of a parent questionnaire to assess the occurrence of IVP. The child's cognitive development is assessed at the ages of 6, 12, and 24 months of age with the Bayley Scales-II. We test the hypothesis that IVP to the mother causally affects early cognitive development of children in a structural equation model with Cross-Lagged-Panel design. The results show a causal influence of IVP on child's cognitive development during the period from t3 (12 months of child's age) to t4 (24 months of child's age). The explanatory power of results is limited by methodological problems, e. g. the operationalization of IVP with only one item and a high panel mortality. Implications for early prevention and intervention of IVP are derived.
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