ReviewDevelopment and psychopathology2022
Measuring early life adversity: A dimensional approach.
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- Unraveling the Concept of Childhood Adversity in Psychosis Research: A Systematic Review.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Longitudinal patterns of adversity from childhood to adolescence: Examining associations with mental health through emerging adulthood using a random-intercept latent transition analysis.Developmental psychology · 2024Trial
- Childhood peer abuse moderates associations of inflammation and cortisol with subcortical brain volume.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Measures matter: assessing childhood maltreatment and emotion dysregulation in a transdiagnostic sample.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Distinct Associations of Threat and Deprivation With Changes in Affective Control during Adolescence: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Dimensions of Early-Life Adversity and Attention Biases in Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Review
- Childhood adversity and psychotic-like experiences in adolescence: Investigating a pathway via disrupted pubertal and grey matter development.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Disinhibited social engagement and reactive attachment behaviours in children assessed for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): Distinguishing effects of maltreatment from inhibitory control difficulties.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Attachment Theory: Novel Clinical and Molecular Insights.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Testing the Dimensional Model of Adversity and Psychopathology: the Mediating Roles of Executive Functioning and Emotion Regulation.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Association of early life adversity with internalizing and externalizing behavior across 3 low- and middle-income countries.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Research Review: Assessment of early-life adversity and trauma - cumulative risk and dimensional approaches.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Review
- Early Exposure to Deprivation or Threat Moderates Expected Associations Between Neural Structure and Age in Adolescent Girls.Child maltreatment · 2025Article
- Differential effects of childhood maltreatment types and timing on psychopathology in formerly out-of-home placed young adults.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Early life adversity and risk for non-communicable health outcomes: challenges and opportunities for a maturing field.BMC medicine · 2025Review
- Dimensions of childhood maltreatment and neural circuits of affective inhibitory control: An fMRI study.Brain research bulletin · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the Childhood Adversity and Social Stress Questionnaire, Parent Report (CASSQ-PR), a measure tailored to assess stressful experiences and traumatic stress symptoms in autistic youth.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2025Article
- Effects of Early Adversity and War Trauma on Learning Under Uncertainty.Developmental science · 2025Article
- A common neural signature between genetic and environmental risk for mental illness.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- The influence of deprivation on cortical development and psychotic symptoms in youth.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
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Abstract
Exposure to adversity in childhood is associated with elevations in numerous physical and mental health outcomes across the life course. The biological embedding of early experience during periods of developmental plasticity is one pathway that contributes to these associations. Dimensional models specify mechanistic pathways linking different dimensions of adversity to health and well-being outcomes later in life. While findings from existing studies testing these dimensions have provided promising preliminary support for these models, less agreement exists about how to measure the experiences that comprise each dimension. Here, we review existing approaches to measuring two dimensions of adversity: threat and deprivation. We recommend specific measures for measuring these constructs and, when possible, document when the same measure can be used by different reporters and across the lifespan to maximize the utility with which these recommendations can be applied. Through this approach, we hope to stimulate progress in understanding how particular dimensions of early environmental experience contribute to lifelong health.
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