ArticleChild abuse & neglect2022
Adverse childhood experiences and perceived stress in early adulthood in the context of disadvantage.
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- The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Depressive Symptoms in Later Life: Mediating Role of Self-Perceptions of Aging in Low-Income Older Korean Immigrants.Journal of gerontological social work · 2026Article
- Alcohol intake patterns, stress exposures and oral health in treatment seeking individuals with alcohol use disorder.Frontiers in oral health · 2026Article
- Interactions between early-life adversity, pandemic stress, and social support on psychiatric disorders in a nationally representative sample of Canadian adults.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- The Legacy of Adversity? The Impact of Caregivers' Childhood Experiences and Children's Mental Health on Family Dynamics and Perceived Burden During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dysregulated responses to stress and alcohol cues in cortico-striatal-limbic regions in social drinkers with early trauma.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025Article
- Association Between Self-Perceived Stress and Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke in Young Adults: A Case-Control Study.Neurology · 2025Article
- Perceived Stress Mediates the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Onset of Bruxism Among Adolescents.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
- Childhood adversities and suicidal ideation among young adults with serious mental illnesses: The mediating roles of perceived stress, dispositional hope, and mental health hope.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Language Preference and its Moderating Role in Coping with Stress: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.Medical research archives · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may sensitize individuals to view situations in adulthood as more stressful, which may contribute to poor health outcomes. In populations facing disadvantage, ACEs may lead to the accumulation of stressors (stress proliferation or mediation hypothesis) throughout the life course. ACEs could also heighten perceived stress later in life due to its enduring impact (stress sensitization or effect modification hypothesis).
objectiveWe examine the associations between ACEs and perceived stress in early adulthood, considering concurrent life stressors, in a longitudinal cohort of Puerto Rican youth exposed to a high degree of disadvantage. PARTICIPANTS AND
settingA community-based sample of 1626 Puerto Rican children living in disadvantaged contexts was followed longitudinally in the Boricua Youth Study from 2000 to 2017.
methodsACEs were measured prospectively during childhood (<18 yrs), and life stressors and past year perceived stress were measured in early adulthood (EA; mean age = 23.4, sd 2.22). Causal mediation analysis tested ACEs' effects on EA perceived stress indirectly through life stressors including potential effect modification.
resultsACEs influenced perceived stress in EA (standardized total effect = 0.13, p < .001) with 35% mediated by increased exposure to life stressors in EA due to ACEs. There was no evidence of increased sensitization to EA life stressors among those with higher ACEs exposure.
conclusionsACEs contribute to perceived stress in EA, albeit with small effect, partially through accumulating effects of ongoing stressors, supporting the stress proliferation hypothesis. Policies aimed at reducing exposure to adversity from childhood to EA are needed to reduce the experience of ACEs and negative sequelae.
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