Abstract：
While past research has suggested the importance of informal social support and early childhood programs for the well-being of child welfare supervised families and children, little is known about whether or not these mechanisms function as protective factors for child welfare involved families and mediate the likelihood of repeat child maltreatment.
The study examined the role of informal social support and early childhood program participation in mediating the effects of initial report of child neglect on subsequent child maltreatment reports.
The study sample of children ages 0-6 (N = 1963) was drawn from the NSCAW-II dataset, a nationally representative longitudinal dataset of 5872 child welfare supervised children and their families.
Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine the direct and indirect pathways: from initial report of neglect to all subsequent child maltreatment reports and from initial report of neglect to all subsequent child maltreatment reports through mediating variables such as informal social support and early childhood programs.
Results showed that informal social support plays an important role in reducing the likelihood of subsequent reports (b = -0.00, p = 0.005). One unit increase in informal social support reduced the odds of a child maltreatment re-report by 0.3 % (odds ratio for informal social support OR = 0.997).
It is important that child welfare supervised families are supported in enhancing their informal networks with their family members and friends and expanding non-familial informal networks in the community.
The study examined the role of informal social support and early childhood program participation in mediating the effects of initial report of child neglect on subsequent child maltreatment reports.
The study sample of children ages 0-6 (N = 1963) was drawn from the NSCAW-II dataset, a nationally representative longitudinal dataset of 5872 child welfare supervised children and their families.
Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine the direct and indirect pathways: from initial report of neglect to all subsequent child maltreatment reports and from initial report of neglect to all subsequent child maltreatment reports through mediating variables such as informal social support and early childhood programs.
Results showed that informal social support plays an important role in reducing the likelihood of subsequent reports (b = -0.00, p = 0.005). One unit increase in informal social support reduced the odds of a child maltreatment re-report by 0.3 % (odds ratio for informal social support OR = 0.997).
It is important that child welfare supervised families are supported in enhancing their informal networks with their family members and friends and expanding non-familial informal networks in the community.
摘要：
背景：虽然过去的研究表明，非正式的社会支持和幼儿计划对儿童福利监督的家庭和儿童的福祉的重要性，关于这些机制是否作为儿童福利涉及家庭的保护因素，并调解重复虐待儿童的可能性，人们知之甚少。
目的：该研究调查了非正式社会支持和幼儿计划参与在调解儿童忽视初始报告对随后的儿童虐待报告的影响中的作用。
方法：0-6岁儿童（N=1963）的研究样本来自NSCAW-II数据集，5872儿童福利监督儿童及其家庭的全国代表性纵向数据集。
方法：结构方程模型用于检查直接和间接途径：从最初的忽视报告到所有随后的儿童虐待报告，以及从最初的忽视报告到所有随后的儿童虐待报告，通过中介变量，例如非正式的社会支持和幼儿计划。
结果：结果表明，非正式的社会支持在降低后续报告的可能性方面起着重要作用（b=-0.00，p=0.005）。非正式社会支持的增加一个单位，使儿童虐待重新报告的几率降低了0.3％（非正式社会支持的几率OR=0.997）。
结论：重要的是，支持儿童福利监督的家庭加强与家人和朋友的非正式网络，并扩大社区中的非家庭非正式网络。
目的：该研究调查了非正式社会支持和幼儿计划参与在调解儿童忽视初始报告对随后的儿童虐待报告的影响中的作用。
方法：0-6岁儿童（N=1963）的研究样本来自NSCAW-II数据集，5872儿童福利监督儿童及其家庭的全国代表性纵向数据集。
方法：结构方程模型用于检查直接和间接途径：从最初的忽视报告到所有随后的儿童虐待报告，以及从最初的忽视报告到所有随后的儿童虐待报告，通过中介变量，例如非正式的社会支持和幼儿计划。
结果：结果表明，非正式的社会支持在降低后续报告的可能性方面起着重要作用（b=-0.00，p=0.005）。非正式社会支持的增加一个单位，使儿童虐待重新报告的几率降低了0.3％（非正式社会支持的几率OR=0.997）。
结论：重要的是，支持儿童福利监督的家庭加强与家人和朋友的非正式网络，并扩大社区中的非家庭非正式网络。
