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. 2025 Jun 23:10.1007/s10964-025-02211-x.
doi: 10.1007/s10964-025-02211-x. Online ahead of print.

Child Maltreatment and Adolescents' Exposure to Disorder in Daily Activity Spaces

Susan Yoon  1   2 , Junyeong Yang  3 , Taylor Napier  4 , Jingyi Wang  5 , Kathryn Maguire-Jack  6 , Bethany Boettner  7 , Christopher R Browning  7   8
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Child Maltreatment and Adolescents' Exposure to Disorder in Daily Activity Spaces

Susan Yoon et al. J Youth Adolesc. .

Abstract

Minimal research has explored how child maltreatment shapes adolescents' exposure to risky environments within youth activity spaces (the places youth visit during their daily routine) which likely influences youth well-being. This study examined the extent to which child maltreatment and neighborhood disorder, individually and collectively, are associated with adolescents' exposure to physical and social disorder in their activity spaces. Participants were 1215 adolescents (47% boys, Mage = 14.26, SDage = 1.87) recruited from a Midwestern city in the United States. Multilevel modeling was conducted. The results indicated a positive association between child maltreatment and disordered activity spaces, with no significant moderation by residential neighborhood-level disorder. The findings point to the need for enhanced maltreatment prevention efforts and targeted interventions to mitigate environmental risks for adolescents with maltreatment histories.

Keywords: Activity spaces; Child maltreatment; GPS data; Neighborhood disorder.

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Conflict of interest statement

Compliance with ethical standards. Conflict of Interest: The authors declare no competing interests. Ethical Approval: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ohio State University Institutional Review Board (05/10/2019; 2019B0185). Informed Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from all adult participants in the study and youth provided assent.

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