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Investigating a Longitudinal Trajectory of Child Obesity and Its Association with Child Maltreatment in South Korea
Author(s) -
Park Aely,
Kim Youngmi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
asian social work and policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1753-1411
pISSN - 1753-1403
DOI - 10.1111/aswp.12093
Subject(s) - latent growth modeling , body mass index , neglect , longitudinal study , association (psychology) , obesity , psychology , national longitudinal surveys , longitudinal data , child abuse , demography , fragile families and child wellbeing study , panel data , developmental psychology , medicine , poison control , injury prevention , psychiatry , environmental health , demographic economics , econometrics , sociology , economics , pathology , psychotherapist
This study investigated the association between child maltreatment and body mass index ( BMI ) using data from four waves (wave 2 in 2011 through 5 in 2014) of the Korean Children & Youth Panel Survey collected by the South Korean National Youth Policy Institute. We employed a latent growth curve modeling approach to estimate an unobserved latent trajectory and to test the longitudinal effects of child abuse and neglect on BMI . Our results indicate that child abuse is significantly associated with BMI and children who report higher levels of abuse tend to have higher rates of increase in their BMI . This study addresses a gap in the literature by demonstrating that a parent's maltreatment of their child has a long‐term effect on the rate of change in their BMI over time.