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ArticleEuropean journal of psychotraumatology2020

Females have more complex patterns of childhood adversity: implications for mental, social, and emotional outcomes in adulthood.

Ida Haahr-Pedersen, Camila Perera, Philip Hyland, Frédérique Vallières, David Murphy, Maj Hansen, Pernille Spitz, Pernille Hansen, Marylène Cloitre

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Article in European journal of psychotraumatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 104 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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104 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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9 authors.

Ida Haahr-PedersenTrinity Centre for Global Health, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-6458-1244
Camila PereraTrinity Centre for Global Health, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-0951-9661
Philip HylandTrinity Centre for Global Health, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-9574-7128
Frédérique VallièresTrinity Centre for Global Health, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-6315-3029
David MurphyTrinity Centre for Global Health, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Maj HansenThRIVE, Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-8328-0807
Pernille SpitzThe Danish Children Centre for the Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Pernille HansenInternational Federation of the Red Cross Centre for Psychosocial Support hosted by Danish Red Cross, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Marylène CloitreNational Center for PTSD, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

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• 21% of males and 39% of females in the US population have been exposed to multiple ACEs in their first 18 years of life.• Females reported a more complex history of childhood adversities than males.• Exposure to ACEs is strongly associated with poorer mental health, social, and emotional outcomes in adulthood.• Exposure to particular ACEs such as growing up in a dysfunctional home was a significant risk factor for negative social outcomes among adult females.ACEchildhood adversityChildhood traumalatent class analysismental healthPTSD

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PMID32002142
PMCPMC6968572

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