ReviewBJPsych open2023
Protective factors for psychosocial outcomes following cumulative childhood adversity: systematic review.
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- Resilience after adversity: an umbrella review of adversity protective factors and resilience-promoting interventions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Strengths-based resilience: the biopsychosocial factors that differentiate 12-year mental well-being trajectories following adverse childhood experiences.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Associations of childhood economic and psychosocial conditions with later-life cognitive function: a longitudinal analysis of the China health and retirement longitudinal study (2011-2020).BMC public health · 2026Article
- Key protective factors that mitigate the impact of childhood trauma on poor mental health in adulthood: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Psychological resilience and disaster preparedness among parents of children with hearing impairments: a cross-sectional analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Relational practice, a critical component for successful social work.Cogent social sciences · 2025Article
- Exposure frequencies of single adverse childhood experiences and their association with psychological distress: evidence from a cohort study among emerging Swiss adults.BMC public health · 2025Observational
- Risk and resilience profiles and their transition pathways in the ABCD Study.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and mental health: the mediating role of perceived social support and coping strategies.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and their differential relationships with transdiagnostic mental health outcomes in young adults.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- The role of social support in reducing the long-term burden of cumulative childhood adversity on adulthood internalising disorder.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Influences of sex and gender on the associations between risk and protective factors, brain, and behavior.Biology of sex differences · 2024Review
- Editorial perspective: protective factors following cumulative childhood adversity.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- The Spanish version of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale - Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF 2.0): Psychometric evaluation in adolescents who have suffered from parental abuse and neglect and a community sample.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe long-term cumulative impact of exposure to childhood adversity is well documented. There is an increasing body of literature examining protective factors following childhood adversity. However, no known reviews have summarised studies examining protective factors for broad psychosocial outcomes following childhood adversity.
aimsTo summarise the current evidence from longitudinal studies of protective factors for adult psychosocial outcomes following cumulative exposure to childhood adversity.
methodWe conducted a formal systematic review of studies that were longitudinal; were published in a peer-reviewed journal; examined social, environmental or psychological factors that were measured following a cumulative measure of childhood adversity; and resulted in more positive adult psychosocial outcomes.
resultsA total of 28 studies from 23 cohorts were included. Because of significant heterogeneity and conceptual differences in the final sample of articles, a meta-analysis was not conducted. The narrative review identified that social support is a protective factor specifically for mental health outcomes following childhood adversity. Findings also suggest that aspects of education are protective factors to adult socioeconomic, mental health and social outcomes following childhood adversity. Personality factors were protective for a variety of outcomes, particularly mental health. The personality factors were too various to summarise into meaningful combined effects. Overall GRADE quality assessments were low and very low, although these scores mostly reflect that all observational studies are low quality by default.
conclusionsThese findings support strategies that improve connection and access to education following childhood adversity exposure. Further research is needed for the roles of personality and dispositional factors, romantic relationship factors and the combined influences of multiple protective factors.
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