ArticleThe American journal of orthopsychiatry2020
Family social support buffers the intergenerational association of maternal adverse childhood experiences and preschoolers' externalizing behavior.
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- Parental Preconception Adversity and Offspring Mental Health in African Americans and Native Americans in the United States: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
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- Exploring the Evidence Base on the Association Between Parents' Adverse and Positive Experiences and the Developmental, Psychological and Behavioral Outcomes of Their Offspring: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Resilience in the early postpartum period: Buffering the impact of maternal ACEs on infant socioemotional development.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Resilience factors counteract intergenerational risk for adolescent maladjustment related to family mental health history and childhood adversity.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Understanding and supporting parenting in parents seeking PTSD treatment: a qualitative study.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Children's Emotion Regulation and Subjective Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Intergenerational Perspective Among Racially and Economically Minoritized Mother-Child Dyads in the United States.Child & youth care forum · 2025Article
- Maternal oxytocin administration mitigates nociceptive, social, and epigenetic impairments in adolescent offspring exposed to perinatal trauma.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Article
- Parent-child relationship quality buffers the association between mothers' adverse childhood experiences and physiological synchrony.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Relationship of maternal childhood maltreatment and children's emotional-behavioral problems: parental reflection functioning and social support's role.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Pre-COVID respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates associations between COVID-19 stress and child externalizing behaviors: Testing neurobiological stress theories.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Maternal adverse childhood experiences and preschool children's behavioral problems: exploring mediation via an adapted measure of adult attachment pattern.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Indigenous Cultural Identity Protects Against Intergenerational Transmission of ACEs Among Indigenous Caregivers and Their Children.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Positive life changes during the COVID-19 pandemic moderate the association between mothers' COVID-related stressors and psychopathology.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2024Article
- Effectiveness, working mechanisms, and implementation of youth-initiated mentoring for juvenile delinquents: a multiple-methods study protocol.Health & justice · 2024Article
- Long-Term Impact of Childhood Adversity on the Gut Microbiome of Nursing Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Maternal and Paternal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Offspring Health and Wellbeing: A Scoping Review.Maternal and child health journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
Despite previous work demonstrating that an accumulation of maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is associated with negative health outcomes across generations, few studies have investigated protective factors beyond the parent-child dyad in the intergenerational transmission of adversity. The current study extends previous findings by examining maternal family social support as a culturally relevant buffer in the association between mothers' ACEs and her children's behavior problems in early childhood. Participants included 121 African American mothers and their preschool-aged children experiencing high sociodemographic risk. Mothers completed questionnaires on ACEs, perceived family social support, children's violence exposure and behavior problems as well as relevant demographics. Maternal family social support moderated the relation between maternal ACEs and children's externalizing behaviors (b = -.14, p < .01), such that children of mothers who reported high ACEs and also moderate to high family social support did not show elevated externalizing behaviors; this pattern was not observed for internalizing behaviors (b = -.06, p = .06). Additionally, the intergenerational buffering effects of family social support were observed above and beyond mothers' psychopathology and children's exposure to violence. These results have implications for culturally relevant prevention and intervention efforts supporting African American mothers with young children that reflect resiliency in the face of disparities across generations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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