Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and mental health symptoms among young adults

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107680" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107680</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107680" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107680</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and mental health symptoms among young adults

Original language description

It is well known that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked with mental health problems. Identifying different patterns of exposure to adverse childhood experiences can provide information regarding what types of adversity may place individuals at most risk for poor mental health. The aims of our study were to identify underlying patterns of 10 types of ACEs in a sample of young adults (i.e., 18–21 years) and to examine relations between the ACEs classes and mental health symptoms (i.e., somatization, depression, anxiety, overall psychological stress). We found that a three-class model fit the data best: low ACEs, high emotional abuse only, and high multiple ACEs. We found significant differences across classes for all mental health symptoms. The high multiple ACEs class had significantly higher mean somatization, anxiety, and overall psychological stress scores than both the high emotional abuse only and low ACEs classes, and the high emotional abuse only class had higher mean anxiety and overall psychological stress scores in comparison to the low ACEs class. In contrast, our results suggest that the low ACEs and high emotional abuse only classes had higher mean levels of depression symptoms than the high multiple ACEs class. Our findings highlight the importance of examining the unique effects of different patterns of exposure to ACEs on mental health to inform prevention and intervention efforts that mitigate the harmful effects of ACEs on mental health.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Children and Youth Services Review

ISSN

0190-7409

e-ISSN

1873-7765

Volume of the periodical

161

Issue of the periodical within the volume

June

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1-8

UT code for WoS article

001261055500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85193799348