Affiliations 

  • 1 School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. alvin.tay@unsw.edu.au
  • 2 School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 2021 Jun;30(6):909-920.
PMID: 32500279 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-020-01569-6

Abstract

Few studies have examined associations between family-level parental factors, society-level violence, and the emotional and behavioral status of children of refugee populations. Our study used cross-sectional epidemiological data to test a theoretical model of these key associations amongst a community sample of children (n = 162) of West Papuan refugees living in remote town in Papua New Guinea (PNG), a setting of endemic violence and poverty. Culturally adapted instruments were used to assess three types of intra-familial factors (adverse parenting, physical and/or sexual abuse and emotional abuse) and three types of society-level violence and stressors (exposure to systematic violence, peer violence, living difficulties). Emotional and behavioural problems were assessed using the Youth Self-Report Checklist. Path analysis was used to test theoretical associations. Key findings include direct associations between both family-level physical and/or sexual abuse (β = .43; p 

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