Intergenerational Continuity of Intimate Partner Violence and Attachment Representations in Cameroonian Children: Findings From a Three-Generation Study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization is associated with insecure attachment and psychological distress, which can have profound implications for parenting. Yet, studies are needed to better understand the intergenerational implications of IPV, especially in non-Western countries. This study examines how experiences of IPV in grandmothers may have cascading effects on maternal IPV and mental health, with negative implications for children’s attachment in Cameroon. Fifty-four families completed the study materials including validated questionnaires (grandmothers, mothers) and an attachment story completion task (preschool-aged children). Sequential mediation models were tested. The mediation was only significant for disorganized attachment. Grandmothers’ IPV victimization was associated with greater scores of disorganized attachment in children ( c = 0.16; 95% CI [0.03, 0.28]), via its association with increased IPV victimization in mothers, which was in turn associated with increased maternal distress ( c 2 = 0.05; [0.00, 0.11]). This study provides unique insights into attachment representations of Cameroonian children in the context of intergenerational IPV. Intervention on IPV and maternal mental health may improve child and family well-being.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".