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Resilience profiles of children previously exposed to parental gender-based violence: A longitudinal decision tree
Julia Yates1, Glorieuse Uwizeye2, C Nadine Wathen2
1Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Background:
Children exposed to parental violence (CEPV) may experience a range of adverse outcomes compared to non-exposed peers yet may demonstrate resilience shaped by both internal and external protective factors.
Objective:
To longitudinally explore the profiles of protective factors in children across the continuum of resilience (i.e., low, moderate, high, and exceptional).
Participants And Setting:
Parent-reported data were collected on behalf of 211 CEPV (Mage = 10.11, SD = 2.21) residing across Canada.
Methods:
Grounded in Resiliency Theory, this longitudinal study used online surveys administered at three timepoints to assess children's resilience and protective factors.
Results:
Decision tree modelling at baseline found that children with exceptional resilience were more likely to have better health (χ2 = 56.23, p < 0.001), with whole-family support further bolstering resilience (χ2 = 20.66, p < 0.001; χ2 = 21.76, p < 0.001). At T2, exceptional resilience was associated with perceiving child welfare services as supportive (χ2 = 76.55, p < 0.001), with additional benefits from economic support (χ2 = 35.08, p < 0.001). At T3, high resilience was linked to perceived supportiveness of therapy services (χ2 = 122.91, p < 0.001), further strengthened by caregiver perceptions of women's shelter support (χ2 = 25.55, p < 0.001).
Conclusions:
These findings suggest that supporting CEPV resilience requires attention to individual assets, safety and stability needs, and access to supportive services addressing violence exposure. This underscores the necessity of trauma- and violence-informed, integrated approaches that extend beyond individual- and family-level factors.
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