Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-16T19:19:13.043Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

From child maltreatment to adolescent cannabis abuse and dependence: A developmental cascade model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2010

Fred A. Rogosch ,
Assaf Oshri  and
Dante Cicchetti
Fred A. Rogosch*
Affiliation:
Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester
Assaf Oshri
Affiliation:
Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester
Dante Cicchetti*
Affiliation:
Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Fred Rogosch, Mt. Hope Family Center, 187 Edinburgh St., Rochester, NY 14608, or Dante Cicchetti, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455; E-mail: [email protected].
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Fred Rogosch, Mt. Hope Family Center, 187 Edinburgh St., Rochester, NY 14608, or Dante Cicchetti, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455; E-mail: [email protected].
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A developmental cascade model tested associations among child maltreatment, internalizing and externalizing psychopathology, social competence, and cannabis abuse and dependence symptoms in a longitudinal cohort (N = 415). Nested structural equation models evaluated continuity and cross-domain influences among broad multi-informant constructs across four developmental periods: age 7 to 9, 10 to 12, 13 to 15, and 15 to 18. Results indicated significant paths from child maltreatment to early externalizing and internalizing problems and social competence, as well as to cannabis abuse and dependence (CAD) symptoms in adolescence. Youth CAD symptoms were primarily related directly to child maltreatment and externalizing problems. Childhood internalizing symptoms contributed to later childhood decreases in social competence, which predicted increases in late adolescent externalizing problems. Using a developmental psychopathology framework, results are discussed in relation to cascade and transactional effects and the interplay between problem behaviors during childhood and development of CAD symptoms during early and late adolescence.

Type
Regular Articles
Information
Development and Psychopathology , Volume 22 , Issue 4: Developmental Cascades: Part 2 , November 2010 , pp. 883 - 897
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Achenbach, T. (1991a). Manual for the Child Behavior Checklist and 1991 profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.Google Scholar
Achenbach, T. (1991b). Manual for the Teacher Report Form and 1991 profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.Google Scholar
Achenbach, T. (1991c). Manual for the Youth Self-Report and 1991 profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.Google Scholar
Barnett, D., Manly, J. T., & Cicchetti, D. (1993). Defining child maltreatment: The interface between policy and research. In Cicchetti, D. & Toth, S. L. (Eds.), Child abuse, child development, and social policy (pp. 7–73). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.Google Scholar
Bayatpour, M., Wells, R. D., & Holford, S. (1992). Physical and sexual abuse as predictors of substance abuse and suicide among pregnant teenagers. Journal of Adolescent Health, 13, 128–132.Google Scholar
Bolger, K. E., & Patterson, C. J. (2001). Developmental pathways from child maltreatment to peer rejection. Child Development, 72, 549–568.Google Scholar
Bradley, R. G., Binder, E. B., Epstein, M. P., Tang, Y., Nair, H. P., Liu, W., et al. (2008). Influence of child abuse on adult depression: Moderation by the corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor gene. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65, 190–200.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, S. A., McGue, M., Maggs, J., Schulenberg, J., Hingson, R., Swartzwelder, S., et al. (2009). A developmental perspective on alcohol and youths 16 to 20 years of age. Pediatrics, 121, S290–S310.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Burt, K. B., Obradovic, J., Long, J. D., & Masten, A. S. (2008). The interplay of social competence and psychopathology over 20 years: Testing transactional and cascade models. Child Development, 79, 359–374.Google Scholar
Burt, K. B., & Roisman, G. I. (2010). Competence and psychopathology: Cascade effects in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Development and Psychopathology, 22, 557–567.Google Scholar
Caspi, A., McClay, J., Moffitt, T. E., Mill, J., Martin, J., Craig, I. W., et al. (2002). Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children. Science, 297, 851–854.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Caspi, A., Sugden, K., Moffitt, T. E., Taylor, A., Craig, I. W., Harrington, H., et al. (2003). Influence of life stress on depression: Moderation by a polymorphism in the 5-HTT gene. Science, 301, 386–389.Google Scholar
Cavaiola, A. A., & Schiff, M. (1988). Behavioral sequelae of physical and/or sexual abuse in adolescents. Child Abuse & Neglect, 12, 181–188.Google Scholar
Chassin, L., Hussong, A., & Beltran, I. (2009). Adolescent substance abuse. In Lerner, R. M. & Steinberg, L. (Eds.), Handbook of adolescent psychology (3rd ed., pp. 723–763). New York: Wiley.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Curtis, W. J. (2005). An event-related potential study of processing of affective facial expressions in young children who have experienced maltreatment during the first year of life. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 641–677.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Lynch, M. (1993). Toward an ecological/transactional model of community violence and child maltreatment: Consequences for children's development. Psychiatry, 56, 96–118.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Lynch, M. (1995). Failures in the expectable environment and their impact on individual development: The case of child maltreatment. In Cicchetti, D. & Cohen, D. J. (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology: Vol. 2. Risk, disorder, and adaptation (pp. 32–71). New York: Wiley.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Luthar, S. S. (Eds.). (1999). Developmental approaches to substance use and abuse. Development and Psychopathology, 11, 655–988.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Manly, J. T. (1990). A personal perspective on conducting research with maltreating families: Problems and solutions. In Brody, G. & Sigel, I. (Eds.), Methods of family research: Families at risk (Vol. 2, pp. 87–133). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (1999). Psychopathology as risk for adolescent substance use disorders: A developmental psychopathology perspective. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 28, 355–365.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (2001a). Diverse patterns of neuroendocrine activity in maltreated children. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 677–694.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (2001b). The impact of child maltreatment and psychopathology upon neuroendocrine functioning. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 755–758.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (2002). A developmental psychopathology perspective on adolescence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 6–20.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., Gunnar, M. R., & Toth, S. L. (2010). The differential impacts of early abuse on internalizing problems and diurnal cortisol activity in school-aged children. Child Development, 81, 252–269.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Sturge-Apple, M. L. (2007). Interactions of child maltreatment and serotonin transporter and monoamine oxidase A polymorphisms: Depressive symptomatology among adolescents from low socioeconomic status backgrounds. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 1161–1180.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Schneider-Rosen, K. (1986). An organizational approach to childhood depression. In Rutter, M., Izard, C., & Read, P. (Eds.), Depression in young people, clinical and developmental perspectives (pp. 71–134). New York: Guilford Press.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., Toth, S. L., & Manly, J. T. (2003). Maternal Maltreatment Classification Interview. Unpublished manuscript, Mt. Hope Family Center, Rochester, NY.Google Scholar
Cicchetti, D., & Valentino, K. (2006). An ecological transactional perspective on child maltreatment: Failure of the average expectable environment and its influence upon child development. In Cicchetti, D. & Cohen, D. J. (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology: Vol. 3. Risk, disorder, and adaptation (2nd ed., pp. 129–201). New York: Wiley.Google Scholar
Coie, J. D., & Dodge, K. A. (1983). Continuities and changes in children's social status: A five-year longitudinal study. Merrill–Palmer Quarterly, 29, 261–282.Google Scholar
Cole, D. A., & Maxwell, S. E. (2003). Testing mediational models with longitudinal data: Questions and tips in the use of structural equation modeling. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 558–577.Google Scholar
Costello, E. J. (2007). Psychiatric predictors of adolescent and young adult drug use and abuse. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 88S, S97–S99.Google Scholar
DeBellis, M. D. (2001). Developmental traumatology: The psychobiological development of maltreated children and its implications for research, treatment, and policy. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 539–564.Google Scholar
Dembo, R., Dertke, M., Borders, S., Washburn, M., & Schmeidler, J. (1988). The relationship between physical abuse, sexual abuse and tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use among youths in a juvenile detention center. International Journal of the Addictions, 23, 351–378.Google Scholar
DeYoung, C., Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (2010). Variation in the CRHR1 gene and moderation of the association between childhood maltreatment and neuroticism. Manuscript submitted for publication.Google Scholar
Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Landsford, J. E., Miller, S., Pettit, G. S., & Bates, J. E. (2009). A dynamic cascade model of the development of substance-use onset. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 74, 1–120.Google Scholar
Edwall, G. E., Hoffman, N. G., & Harrison, P. A., (1989). Psychological correlates of sexual abuse in adolescent girls in chemical dependency. Journal of Adolescent Chemical Dependency, 1, 53–68.Google Scholar
English, D. J., Upadhyaya, M. P., Litrownik, A. J., Marshall, J. M., Runyan, D. K., Graham, J. C., et al. (2005). Maltreatment's wake: The relationship of maltreatment dimensions to child outcomes. Child Abuse & Neglect, 29, 597–619.Google Scholar
Fergusson, D. M., Boden, J. M., & Horwood, L. J. (2008). Exposure to childhood sexual and physical abuse and adjustment in early adulthood. Child Abuse & Neglect, 32, 607–619.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fergusson, D. M., Horwood, L. J., & Ridder, E. M. (2007). Conduct and attentional problems in childhood and adolescence: Results of a 25-year longitudinal study. Drug Abuse and Dependence, 88S, S14–S26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fisher, P., Shaffer, D., Piacentini, J., Lapkin, J., Kafantaris, V., Leonard, H., et al. (1993). Sensitivity of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (2nd ed., DISC-2.1) for specific diagnoses of children and adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, 666–673.Google Scholar
Glantz, M. D., & Leshner, A. I. (2000). Drug abuse and developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 795–814.Google Scholar
Harrison, P.A., Fulkerson, J.A., & Beebe, T.J. (1997). Multiple substance use among adolescent physical and sexual abuse victims. Child Abuse & Neglect, 21, 529–539.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., & Miller, J. Y. (1992). Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 64–105.Google Scholar
Heim, C., Newport, D. J., Mletzko, T., Miller, A. H., & Nemeroff, C. B. (2008). The link between childhood trauma and depression: Insights from HPA axis studies in humans. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 33, 693–710.Google Scholar
Hu, L. T., & Bentler, P. M. (1998). Fit indices in covariance structure modeling: Sensitivity to underparameterized model misspecification. Psychological Methods, 3, 424–453.Google Scholar
Jaffee, S. R., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., Dodge, K. A., Rutter, M., Taylor, A., et al. (2005). Nature × nurture: Genetic vulnerabilities interact with physical maltreatment to promote conduct problems. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 67–84.Google Scholar
Kaplow, J. B., & Widom, C. S. (2007). Age of onset of child maltreatment predicts long-term mental health outcomes. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 176–187.Google Scholar
Kelly, B. T., Thornberry, T. P., & Smith, C. A. (1997). In the wake of child maltreatment (pp. 1–15). Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.Google Scholar
Kerr, M., Tremblay, R. E., Pagani, L., & Vitaro, F. (1997). Boys' behavioral inhibition and the risk of later delinquency. Archives of General Psychiatry, 54, 809–816.Google Scholar
Kim-Cohen, J., & Gold, A. L. (2009). Measured gene–environement interactions and mechanisms promoting resilient development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 138–142.Google Scholar
Koob, G. F., & Volkow, N. D. (2010). Neurocircuitry of addiction. Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews, 35, 217–238.Google Scholar
McDonald, R. P., & Ho, M.-H. R. (2002). Principles and practice in reporting structural equation analyses. Psychological Methods, 7, 64–82.Google Scholar
Manly, J. T. (2005). Advances in research definitions of child maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 29, 425–439.Google Scholar
Manly, J. T., Cicchetti, D., & Barnett, D. (1994). The impact of subtype, frequency, chronicity, and severity of child maltreatment on social competence and behavior problems. Development and Psychopathology, 6, 121–143.Google Scholar
Manly, J. T., Kim, J. E., Rogosch, F. A., & Cicchetti, D. (2001). Dimensions of child maltreatment and children's adjustment: Contributions of developmental timing and subtype. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 759–782.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martell, M. M., Pierce, L., Nigg, J. T., Jester, J., , M., Adams, K., Puttler, L. I. et al. (2009). Temperamental pathways to childhood disruptive behavior and adolescent substance abuse: Testing a cascade model. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37, 363–373.Google Scholar
Masten, A. S., & Coatsworth, J. D. (1998). The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments: Lessons from research on successful children. American Psychologist, 53, 205–220.Google Scholar
Masten, A. S., Desjardins, C. D., McCormick, C. M., Kuo, S. I., & Long, J. D. (2010). The significance of childhood competence for adult success at work: A developmental cascade analysis. Development and Psychopathology, 22, 679–694.Google Scholar
Masten, A. S., Faden, V. B., Zucker, R. A., & Spear, L. P. (2009). Underage drinking: A developmental framework. Pediatrics, 121, S235–S251.Google Scholar
Masten, A. S., Hubbard, J. J., Gest, S. D., Tellegen, A., Garmezy, N., & Ramirez, M. (1999). Competence in the context of adversity: Pathways to resilience and maladaptation from childhood to late adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 11, 143–169.Google Scholar
Masten, A. S., Roisman, G. I., Long, J. D., Burt, K. B., Obradovic, J., Riley, J. R., et al. (2005). Developmental cascades: Linking academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing symptoms over 20 years. Developmental Psychology, 41, 733–746.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moffitt, T. E. (1993). “Life-course persistent” and “adolescence-limited” antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100, 674–701.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moran, P. B., Vuchinich, S., & Hall, N. K. (2004). Associations between types of maltreatment and substance use during adolescence. Child Abuse & Neglect, 28, 565–574.Google Scholar
Muthén, L. K., & Muthén, B. O. (2008). Mplus user's guide (6th ed.). Los Angeles: Author.Google Scholar
Oshri, A., Tubman, J. G., Wagner, E. F, Leon-Morris, S., & Snyders, J. (2008). Psychiatric symptom patterns, proximal risk factors, and sexual risk behaviors among youth in outpatient substance abuse treatment. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78, 430–441.Google Scholar
Pekarkik, E., Prinz, R., Liebert, D., Weintraub, S., & Neale, J. (1976). The Pupil Evaluation Inventory: A sociometric technique for assessing children's social behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 4, 83–97.Google Scholar
Piacentini, J., Shaffer, D., Fisher, P., Schwab-Stone, M., Davies, M., & Goia, P. (1993). The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children—Revised (DISC-R): III. Concurrent criterion validity. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, 658–665.Google Scholar
Polanczyk, G., Caspi, A., Williams, B., Price, T. S., Danese, A., Sugden, K., et al. (2009). Protective effect of CRHR1 gene variants on the development of adult depression following childhood maltreatment: Replication and extension. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66, 978–985.Google Scholar
Pollak, S. D., Cicchetti, D., Klorman, R., & Brumaghim, J. T. (1997). Cognitive brain event-related potentials and emotion processing in maltreated children. Child Development, 68, 773–787.Google Scholar
Pollak, S. D., Klorman, R., Thatcher, J. E., & Cicchetti, D. (2001). P3b reflects maltreated children's reactions to facial displays of emotion. Psychophysiology, 38, 267–274.Google Scholar
Preacher, K. J., & Hayes, A. F. (2008). Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 879–891.Google Scholar
Pribor, E. F., & Dinwiddie, S. H. (1992). Psychiatric correlates of incest in childhood. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149, 52–56.Google Scholar
Rodgers, C. S., Lang, A. J., Laffaye, C., Satz, L. E., Dresselhaus, T. R., & Stein, M. B. (2004). The impact of individual forms of child maltreatment on health behavior. Child Abuse & Neglect, 28, 575–586.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Satorra, A. (2000). Scaled and adjusted restricted tests in multi-sample analysis of moment structures. In Heijmans, R. D. H., Pollock, D. S. G., & Satorra, A. (Eds.), Innovations in multivariate statistical analysis: A festschrift for Heinz Neudecker (pp. 233–247). London: Kluwer Academic.Google Scholar
Schaefer, M. R., Sobieragi, K., & Hollyfield, R. L. (1988). Prevalence of child physical abuse in adult male veteran alcoholics. Child Abuse & Neglect, 12, 141–150.Google Scholar
Schafer, J. L., & Graham, J. W. (2002). Missing data: Our view of the state of the art. Psychological Methods, 7, 147–177.Google Scholar
Schwab-Stone, M., Fisher, P., Piacentini, J., Shaffer, D., Davies, M., & Briggs, M. (1993). The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children—Revised Version (DISC-R): II. Test–retest reliability. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, 651–657.Google Scholar
Shaffer, D., Schwab-Stone, M., Fisher, P., Cohen, P., Piacentini, J., Davies, M. et al. (1993). The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children—Revised (DISC-R): I. Preparation, field testing, and interrater reliability. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, 643–650.Google Scholar
Sroufe, L. A. (1989). Relationships, self, and individual adaptation. In Sameroff, A. J. & Emde, R. N. (Eds.), Relationship disturbances in early childhood (pp. 70–94). New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar
Sroufe, L. A. (1990). Considering normal and abnormal together: The essence of developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 2, 335–347.Google Scholar
Stouthamer-Loeber, M., Loeber, R., Homish, D. L., & Wei, E. (2001). Maltreatment of boys and the development of disruptive and delinquent behavior. Development and Psychopathology, 13, 941–956.Google Scholar
Tarter, R. E. (2002). Etiology of adolescent substance abuse: A developmental perspective. American Journal on Addictions, 11, 171–191.Google Scholar
Tarter, R. E., Kirisci, L., Mezzich, A., Cornelius, J. R., Pajer, K., Vanyukov, M., et al. (2003). Neurobehavioral disinhibition in childhood predicts early onset of substance use disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 1078–1085.Google Scholar
Trickett, P. K., & McBride-Chang, C. (1995). The developmental impact of different types of child abuse and neglect. Developmental Review, 15, 311–337.Google Scholar
Trickett, P. K., Noll, J. G., Susman, E. J., Shenk, C. E., & Putnam, F. W. (2010). Attenuation of cortisol across development for victims of sexual abuse. Development and Psychopathology, 22, 165–175.Google Scholar
Weinberg, N. Z., Rahdert, E., Colliver, J. D., & Glantz, M. D. (1999). Adolescent substance abuse: A Review of the past 10 years. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, 252–261.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Widom, C. S., DuMont, K., & Czaja, S. J. (2007). A prospective investigation of major depressive disorder and comorbidity in abused and neglected children grown up. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 49–56.Google Scholar
Widom, C. S., Mamorstein, N. R., & White, H. R. (2006). Childhood victimization and illicit drug use in middle adulthood. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20, 394–403.Google Scholar
Wilson, H. W., & Widom, C. S. (2009). A prospective examination of the path from child abuse and neglect to illicit drug use in middle adulthood: The potential mediating role of four risk factors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38, 340–354.Google Scholar
Windle, M., Spear, L. P., Fuglini, A. J., Angold, A., Brown, J. D., Pine, D., et al. (2009). Transitions to underage and problem drinking: Developmental processes and mechanisms between 10 and 15 years of age. Pediatrics, 121, S273–S289.Google Scholar
Wittchen, H., Frohlich, C., Behrendt, S., Gunter, A., Rehm, J., Zimmerman, P., et al. (2007). Cannabis use and cannabis use disorders and their relationship to mental disorders: A 10-year prospective-longitudinal community sample of adolescents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 88S, S60–S70.Google Scholar
Yuan, H., & Bentler, P. M. (1997). Finite sample distribution-free test statistics for nested structural models. Behaviormetrika, 24, 19–26.Google Scholar
Yuan, H., & Bentler, P. M. (2000). Three likelihood-based methods for mean and covariance structure analysis with nonnormal missing data. Sociological Methodology, 30, 165–200.Google Scholar
Zucker, R. A. (2006). Alcohol use and the alcohol use disorders: A developmental–biopsychosocial systems formulation covering the life course. In Cicchetti, D. & Cohen, D. J. (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology: Vol. 3. Risk, disorder, and adaptation (2nd ed., pp. 620–656). New York: Wiley.Google Scholar