ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2024
The role of social support in reducing the long-term burden of cumulative childhood adversity on adulthood internalising disorder.
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- Perceived Social Support as a Statistical Indirect Pathway Linking Adverse Childhood Experiences to Risky Behaviors Among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Violence across the lifespan and its association with depression: cumulative effects and psychosocial moderation in the UK Biobank.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and mental health: the mediating role of perceived social support and coping strategies.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the medical staff occupational stress scale among Chinese clinical nurses.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Impulsivity and social support as intervening and interactive variables in the link between childhood socioeconomic status and mental health among first-year college students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Stress, coping profiles, and depression among nurses: a latent profile and mediation analysis.BMC nursing · 2024Article
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purposePrevious research indicates that social support is protective for the mental health outcomes of exposure to childhood adversity. However, the impact of social support as a protective factor following exposure to cumulative childhood adversity is understudied with prospective longitudinal data. The aim of this present study was to examine how social support mediates the impact of cumulative exposure to childhood adversity on internalising disorder in adulthood.
methodsThe Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) is a general population birth cohort, born in 1977 and representative of Christchurch, New Zealand at the time of the cohort members' birth. The present study used a generalised estimating equations (GEE) framework to analyse direct associations between a cumulative measure of childhood adversity (CA) and internalising disorders (major depression, and any anxiety disorder), and indirect associations through social support.
resultsResults indicated a dose-dependent relationship between increased exposure to CA and worsened odds of a diagnosis for major depression and any anxiety disorder, respectively. There was also a significant mediating effect of social support on the direct associations between CA and both major depression (OR (95%CI) =0 .98 (0.97, 0.99), p < 001) and any anxiety disorder (OR (95%CI) = .98 (0.97, 0.99), p < 001).
conclusionThe findings indicate that social support reduces the impact of childhood adversity on adult mental health, and is therefore a target for future work examining potential interventions following CA.
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