ArticleGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2025
The moderating and mediating role of resilience in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and depression, PTSD, and suicidality in Kenyan youth.
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- Childhood emotional maltreatment and trauma-related outcomes: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Pooled it
- An exploratory study of anxiety symptoms and associated factors among Kenyan youth recruited from colleges and communities in urban and peri-urban areas in the Nairobi Metropolitan.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Perceived parental attitudes and gambling behavior in adults: the moderating role of resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Childhood trauma and psychological symptoms in young adults: examining the mediating role of vulnerable narcissism and the moderating role of psychological resilience.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are widely associated with mental health disorders, such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicidality. Resilience plays a role in mediation and moderation of these associations, yet there is limited data from Kenya on this. This cross-sectional study examined the role of resilience in the relationship between ACEs and mental health outcomes among 1,972 participants aged 14-25 years in the Nairobi Metropolitan area. Participants completed the Trauma and Distress Scale (ACEs), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (depression), Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (suicidality), Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (PTSD), and Adult Resilience Measure-Revised (resilience). Analyses of moderation and mediation using Hayes Process Macro indicated that resilience moderated the association between ACEs with PTSD and depression, with minimal effect on suicidality. It also moderated specific associations, including emotional/physical neglect on ideation, physical abuse on lifetime behavior (
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