Dysfunctional maltreatment-related cognitions in children and adolescents

de Haan, Anke; Ganser, Helene G.; Münzer, Annika; Witt, Andreas; Goldbeck, Lutz

doi:10.1186/s13034-017-0168-1

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Table 1 Sociodemographic data and maltreatment-related information

From: Dysfunctional maltreatment-related cognitions in children and adolescents

Variable	Subgroup	Total sample N = 231
Variable	Subgroup	n	%
Gender	Male	133	57.6
	Female	98	42.4
Age	Children (8–12)	149	64.5
(M = 12.0, SD = 2.5)	Adolescents (13–17)	82	35.5
School	Elementary school	63	27.3
	Middle and high school	106	45.9
	School for children with learning difficulties	46	19.9
	Not determined^a	16	6.9
Household incomes per month	Under 500 €	7	3.0
	500 €–under 1000 €	26	11.3
	1000 €–under 2000 €	65	28.1
	2000 €–under 3000 €	40	17.3
	3000 €–under 4000 €	25	10.8
	4000 €–under 5000 €	20	8.7
	5000 € and more	11	4.8
	Not determined^a	37	16.0
Occupation mother	Not employed (e.g. pensioner, student etc.)	65	28.1
	Unemployed, seeking work	35	15.2
	Temporary leave of absence e.g. parental leave	8	3.5
	Part-time job or employed on hourly basis	68	29.4
	Full-time job	34	14.7
	Apprentice	1	.4
	Not determined^a	20	8.7
Occupation father	Not employed (e.g. pensioner, student etc.)	29	12.6
	Unemployed, seeking work	22	9.5
	Temporary leave of absence e.g. parental leave	0	.0
	Part-time job or employed on hourly basis	16	6.9
	Full-time job	112	48.5
	Apprentice	3	1.3
	Not determined^a	49	21.2
Index-event	Domestic violence	57	24.7
	Emotional abuse	23	10.0
	Neglect	30	13.0
	Physical abuse	65	28.1
	Sexual abuse	56	24.2
Maltreatment type (Note. Take multi-type maltreatment in account)	Domestic violence	158	68.4
	Emotional abuse	124	53.7
	Neglect	131	56.7
	Physical abuse	175	75.8
	Sexual abuse	89	38.5
Co-occurrence of maltreatment types	Single-type maltreatment	32	13.9
	Two types	58	25.1
	Three types	59	25.5
	Four types	58	25.1
	Five types	24	10.4
Out-of-home-care	Yes	78	33.8
	No	153	66.2
Migration background^b	Yes	75	32.5
Migration background^b	No	128	55.4
	Not determined^a	28	12.1

^a“Not determined” means that these participants could not be reliably classified in any category due to insufficient information
^bMigration background was defined as non-German nationality or non-German place of birth of the child or at least of one parent

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