Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention
Authored by Xiaolin Hu, Nicholas Keller
Date Published: 2015
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Abstract
This paper presents an agent-based model that simulates the dynamics of
child maltreatment and child maltreatment prevention. The developed
model follows the principles of complex systems science and explicitly
models a community and its families with multi-level factors across the
social ecology. Each agent includes behavioral/cognitive modeling to
account for the behavioral/cognitive process of child maltreatment.
Simulation of child maltreatment prevention is also supported to
evaluate the impacts of different prevention/intervention strategies. We
describe the model and show experiment results to evaluate and
demonstrate the agent-based model.
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Determinants
Self-efficacy
Parenting behavior
Stress