ArticleDepression and anxiety2022
Association of adversity with psychopathology in early childhood: Dimensional and cumulative approaches.
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- Depression in youths with early life adversity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Indicators of resource scarcity differentially moderate the impact of threat exposure on psychopathology in a cross-sectional community sample of youth.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and psychopathology in adolescents from northern Chile: the moderating role of the attachment style.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2023Article
- Distinct Associations of Deprivation and Threat With Alterations in Brain Structure in Early Childhood.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Article
- Alcohol and psychoactive substance use in a cohort of children followed by child protection in France.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Empirically-derived dimensions of childhood adversity and cumulative risk: associations with measures of depression, anxiety, and psychosis-spectrum psychopathology.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
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backgroundThe association between adversity and psychopathology in adolescents and adults is characterized by equifinality. These associations, however, have not been assessed during early childhood when psychopathology first emerges. Defining adversity using both dimensional and cumulative risk approaches, we examined whether specific types of adversity are differentially associated with psychopathology in preschool-aged children.
methodsMeasures of threat, deprivation, and total adversities (i.e., cumulative risk) were calculated based on parent-reported information for 755 2- to 5-year old children recruited from pediatric primary care clinics. Logistic regression was used to estimate cross-sectional associations between type of adversity and anxiety, depression, ADHD, and behavioral disorder diagnoses.
resultsThreat and cumulative risk exhibited independent associations with psychopathology. Threat was strongly related to behavioral disorders. Cumulative risk was consistently related to all psychopathologies.
conclusionsUsing mutually adjusted models, we identified differential associations between threat and psychopathology outcomes in preschool-aged children. This selectivity may reflect different pathways through which adversity increases the risk for psychopathology during this developmentally important period. As has been observed at other ages, a cumulative risk approach also effectively identified the cumulative impact of all forms of adversity on most forms of psychopathology during early childhood.
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