ArticleJournal of clinical psychology2026
Profiles of Early Life Stress and Their Interaction With Proximal Stress in Early Adulthood: A Person-Centered Approach.
Article in Journal of clinical psychology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveAdverse effects of early life stress (ELS) exposure are well-documented, but the joint effects of multiple exposures to different types of ELS (e.g., abuse, neglect, family dysfunction, maladaptive parenting) and their interaction with more proximal stress in adulthood remains less understood. To bridge this gap, we used a person-centered approach to identify distinct patterns of exposure to ELS (i.e., ELS profiles) and examined whether they interact with proximal stress to explain variability in mental health outcomes.
methods367 young adults completed questionnaires assessing their exposure to ELS (i.e., abuse, neglect, family dysfunction, maladaptive parenting), proximal stress (COVID-19-related stressors), and stress-related mental health outcomes (e.g., mood and posttraumatic stress symptoms, alcohol use). We conducted latent profile analyses to uncover ELS profiles and regression-based moderation analyses to examine their interactions with COVID-19 stress.
resultsWe identified three profiles: Profile 1 (n = 286) with low ELS exposure; Profile 2 (n = 66) with high emotional maltreatment and elevated physical maltreatment, family dysfunction, and parental affectionless control; and Profile 3 (n = 15) with extremely high childhood maltreatment (particularly sexual abuse), parental affectionless control, and normative family dysfunction. These profiles interacted with COVID-19 stress to explain variability in mood symptoms and alcohol use, suggesting sensitizing effects of ELS.
conclusionsThe identified profiles and their interaction with COIVD-19 stress shed light on the cumulative and interactive effects of exposure to multiple stressors across the lifespan that could help identify vulnerabilities for stress-related psychological problems.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.