ArticleAcademic pediatrics
Positive Childhood Experiences Support Cognition and Counteract Behavior and Emotion Problems During Early Adolescence.
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- Psychological mediators of the associations between adverse and benevolent childhood experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of traumatic stress · 2026Pooled it
- Understanding adverse childhood experiences within the first decade of the ABCD study: A systematic review.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Positive Childhood Experiences, Suicide Cognitions, Subjective Happiness, and Mental Well-Being in Young Adults: A Half-Longitudinal Serial Mediation Study.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- From school climate to brain development: What the ABCD study reveals about the educational context of adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Effects of adverse childhood experiences and childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on youth depression: A scoping review.Journal of child and adolescent mental health · 2026Article
- Do positive childhood experiences reduce children's deviant behavior in physical education learning?-A longitudinal validation based on a latent variable growth model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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objectiveThis study aimed to identify the independent associations of positive childhood experiences (PCEs) on brain health (cognitive function, behavioral and emotional problems) among early adolescents.
methodsData from the 2-year follow-up visit from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study were analyzed (N = 5449, mean age: 12.0 ± 0.7, age range = 10.6-13.4 years). Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) were measured by parent report at baseline, and PCEs were measured by parent report at year two. Dependent variables included cognitive function domains (National Institutes of Health [NIH] Toolbox) and the child behavior checklist (CBCL) subscales at year two. Multivariate linear regression analyses were performed for each dependent variable, with the number of PCEs and ACEs as independent variables, adjusting for age, sex, race and ethnicity, puberty stage, and family income.
resultsPCEs were associated with better cognitive function on tasks of picture vocabulary (b = 0.29, 95% CI 0.15-0.43), flanker (b = 0.14, 0.00-0.28), reading recognition (b = 0.19, CI 0.08-0.31), and picture sequence memory (b = 0.44, CI 0.21-0.67). The PCEs:ACEs interaction showed that greater PCEs predicted a weaker association of ACEs on the CBCL subscales: anxious-depressed (b = -0.06, -0.10 to -0.01), withdrawn (b = -0.06, -0.09 to -0.04), aggressive behavior (b = -0.11, -0.17 to -0.06), rule-breaking behaviors (b = -0.06, -0.09 to -0.04), social problems (b = -0.04, -0.07 to -0.01), somatic complaints (b = -0.03, -0.06 to 0.00), and total CBCL problems (b = -0.46, -0.69 to -0.23).
conclusionsExposure to PCEs supports cognition and is protective against psychopathology, even among children exposed to ACEs.
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