ArticleInternational journal of public health2019
Adversity in childhood and young adulthood predicts young adult depression.
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- The impact of early adversity on later life health, lifestyle, and cognition.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Childhood Trauma and Depressive Level Among Chinese College Students in Guangzhou: The Roles of Rumination and Perceived Stress.Psychiatry investigation · 2024Article
- Violence victimisation and young adult cardiometabolic health: the role of timing and social identity.Annals of human biology · 2024Article
- Adversity type and timing predict temporal summation of pain in African-American adults.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- Cognitive-Affective-Behavioral Pathways Linking Adversity and Discrimination to Daily Pain in African-American Adults.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Adversity specificity and life period exposure on cognitive aging.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cumulative life course adversity, mental health, and cognition in the UK biobank.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Role of Qi-Stagnation Constitution and Emotion Regulation in the Association Between Childhood Maltreatment and Depression in Chinese College Students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesAdversity experience, in both childhood and adulthood, has been associated with the development of depression. However, it is currently unclear how variation in timing and duration of adversity across childhood and young adulthood affects the extent of depression symptomology.
methodsData were analyzed from 2610 individuals from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health in the USA. Adversity in childhood and adulthood was evaluated using instruments similar to the adverse childhood experiences questionnaire, and associations were assessed by Poisson regression.
resultsAny adversity experience was associated with significantly elevated depression symptoms in young adulthood. Individuals who experienced adversity during both childhood and adulthood had significantly higher depression symptoms than those experiencing adversity during only childhood or adulthood, suggesting a potential dose-response relationship between duration of adversity experience and depression symptomology.
conclusionsThese results suggest that any adversity experience increases depression symptoms in young adulthood and that cumulative adversity is particularly detrimental. While long-term interventions to reduce adversity exposure would be most efficacious, interventions to reduce adversity at any period would still be beneficial.
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