Intergenerational Continuity in Child Maltreatment: Mediating Mechanisms and Implications for Prevention

In the interest of improving child maltreatment prevention, this prospective, longitudinal, community‐based study of 499 mothers and their infants examined (a) direct associations between mothers’ experiences of childhood maltreatment and their offspring’s maltreatment, and (b) mothers’ mental health problems, social isolation, and social information processing patterns (hostile attributions and aggressive response biases) as mediators of these...