Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.1017/S0954579424000865

Publication Title

Development and Psychopathology

Volume

Article in Press

Pages

1-13

Abstract

The Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (MLSRA) is a landmark prospective, longitudinal study of human development focused on a sample of mothers experiencing poverty and their firstborn children. Although the MLSRA pioneered a number of important topics in the area of social and emotional development, it began with the more specific goal of examining the antecedents of child maltreatment. From that foundation and for more than 40 years, the study has produced a significant body of research on the origins, sequelae, and measurement of childhood abuse and neglect. The principal objectives of this report are to document the early history of the MLSRA and its contributions to the study of child maltreatment and to review and summarize results from the recently updated childhood abuse and neglect coding of the cohort, with particular emphasis on findings related to adult adjustment. While doing so, we highlight key themes and contributions from Dr Dante Cicchetti's body of research and developmental psychopathology perspective to the MLSRA, a project launched during his tenure as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota.

Rights

© The Authors, 2024.

This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original work is properly cited.

Original Publication Citation

Nivison, M. D., Labella, M. H., Raby, K. L., Doom, J. R., Martin, J., Johnson, W. F., Zamir, O., Englund, M. M., Simpson, J. A., Carlson, E. A., & Roisman, G. I. (2024). Insights into child abuse and neglect: Findings from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation. Development and Psychopathology, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579424000865

ORCID

0000-0002-2068-7204 (Johnson)

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