Publication Date

1-1-2023

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Child and Family Social Work

DOI

10.1111/cfs.13097

Abstract

General population studies find that rates of child maltreatment are higher than those identified in the child welfare system. Some modes of administration may result in higher disclosure rates of child maltreatment by respondents. This study assesses differences in characteristics of parents who are recruited using telephone sampling techniques or via the internet and whether the survey was administered by telephone or the web. We have 1599 parent respondents recruited from listed samples and Craigslist advertisements. Surveys were administered via the telephone or online. Survey included measures of parenting behaviours, psychosocial characteristics and demographics for the parent, child and family. Data were analysed using logit multilevel models. We found no differences between mode of administration and our child maltreatment and parenting measures, including physical abuse, corporal punishment and supervisory neglect. Recruitment strategy was not related to leaving a child home alone and corporal punishment. However, we did find that parents recruited by Craigslist use physical abuse more frequently. That we found no difference in use of punitive and neglectful parenting practices by survey mode of administration and recruitment method provides some degree of confidence that survey methods other than random-digit-dialling telephone surveys may result in generalizable samples in this age of declining landline use.

Keywords

child abuse and neglect, general population studies, survey recruitment, telephone surveys

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Department

Social Work

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