Additionally, the continuity of maladaptive functioning exhibited by maltreated children across the 3 years of this investigation was substantial.
Additionally, we are interested in whether maltreated and nonmaltreated children will differ in their resilient self-strivings and in their developmental pathways to competent functioning.
Two thirds of the victims showed authority conflict problems, and almost all of the maltreated boys displayed behaviors characteristic of the overt and covert pathways.
The processes underlying maltreated children's emotional recognition reflect adaptive (but costly) responses to their environments.
Maltreated youth who perceive that they are victims may, by implication, have a more developed (and more generally applied) conceptualization of victimizer.
These researchers speculate that a maltreated child's secure attachment may function as a protective mechanism against self-dysfunction.
The adolescents' ages ranged from 14 to 19 years, and they had been maltreated in their family of origin.
This variable identifies those subjects who were maltreated only during the elementary school age period, between ages 6 and 11 years.
