The long arm of childhood: The prolonged influence of adverse childhood experiences on depression during middle and old age in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 135910532110377
Author(s):  
Hao Chen ◽  
Qiuyan Fan ◽  
Stephen Nicholas ◽  
Elizabeth Maitland
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Dose Response Relationship ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adult Depression ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Nationally Representative

Utilizing data from the nationally representative China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this study analyzed the effect of intensity and duration of adverse childhood experiences on depression in middle aged and older aged adults in China. The mediating effect of cumulative health risk and personal factors were validated through the Karlson–Holm–Breen method. The results showed a significant dose-response relationship between adverse childhood experiences and adult depression. The elevated health risks of chronic diseases, disabilities, and physical pain, as well as the disadvantages in education, employment, and economic status caused by the adverse childhood experiences indirectly worsen adult depression.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Sleep Problems among Adolescent Students: Mediation by Depression or Anxiety

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
E-Jin Park ◽  
Shin-Young Kim ◽  
Yeeun Kim ◽  
Dajung Sung ◽  
Bora Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
The Relationship

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are known to be closely related to depression, anxiety and sleep problems. However, it remains unclear whether adolescents with ACEs have sleep problems regardless of depression or anxiety or under a mediating effect from depression or anxiety. Therefore, our aim was to examine whether depression or anxiety mediates the relationship between ACEs and sleep problems in adolescents by using a community sample. The Early Trauma Inventory Self Report–Short Form (ETISR-SF) and List of Threatening Experiences Questionnaire (LTE-Q) were used to assess traumatic ACEs. Ultimately, data from 737 students (M = 448, F = 289, 15.1 ± 1.4 years old) were included in the statistical analysis. A total of 576 (78.1%) participants reported that they had experienced one or more ACEs. Adolescents with ACEs had higher levels of depression, anxiety and sleep problems than did adolescents without ACEs, and boys tended to experience more trauma than girls. Depression and anxiety partially mediated the relationship between ACEs and sleep problems. The results of this study suggest the need for depression and anxiety interventions for adolescents with ACEs to reduce the long-term consequences, including sleep problems and physical health problems.

scholarly journals Associations of adverse childhood experiences and bullying on physical pain in the general population of Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol Volume 11 ◽  
pp. 3099-3108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Brown ◽  
Paul Plener ◽  
Elmar Braehler ◽  
Joerg Fegert ◽  
Markus Huber-Lang
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood

scholarly journals Is the I-PACE (Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution) model valid in South Korea? The effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on internet gaming disorder and the mediating effect of stress on adolescents

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Internet Gaming Disorder ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Gaming Disorder ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Internet Gaming ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Stress Score

Abstract Background and aims The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on internet gaming disorder (IGD) and the mediating effect of stress based on the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model. Methods The 2017 survey data from one community addiction management center in South Korea were analyzed. A sample of 3,593 adolescents (mean age = 13.75 years, SD = 2.22) were recruited from 23 elementary, middle and high schools and 11 local children’s centers. The mediating effect was analyzed by the three-step analysis method. Results Our study found that ACEs had a significant effect on the stress score (B = 1.420, P < 0.001) and the stress scale score had a significant effect the IGD score (B = 0.127, P < 0.001). After adjusting for the stress score in the model, ACEs had a significant effect on the IGD score (B = 0.328, P < 0.001), and the stress score had partial mediating effects (B = 0.1802, 95% C. I: 0.131–0.239). Discussion We found that ACEs directly affect IGD and that ACEs directly affect IGD through stress in support of the I-PACE model. In the sensitivity analysis, the mediating effect of stress in the low-risk IGD group was significant, but the mediating effect of stress in the high-risk IGD group was not significant. Prior ACEs should be considered when interviewing IGD clients. In addition, enhancing stress management skills would be beneficial to IGD clients with a history of ACEs, and actions reducing exposure to ACEs in childhood are necessary.

scholarly journals Suffered life, hard life: adverse experiences in childhood of people with chronic musculoskeletal pain

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleiber Henrique Borini ◽  
Diene Monique Carlos ◽  
Lazslo Antônio Ávila ◽  
Simone Saltareli ◽  
Priscilla Hortense
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Physical And Psychological Violence

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the adverse experiences lived in the childhood by people with chronic musculoskeletal pain, based on psychoanalytic psychosomatics. Methods: Qualitative research, developed with 20 people with chronic musculoskeletal pain and who were receiving physiotherapeutic treatment at a clinic in the countryside of the state of São Paulo. The data were collected during the months of June and July 2018, through semi-structured interviews. This article refers to one of the resulting themes of reflexive thematic analysis: Suffered life, hard life. Results: When talking about their lives, people living with chronic musculoskeletal pain revealed themes associated with some adverse childhood experiences such as parental deaths, neglect, economic hardship, family violence, physical and psychological violence. Final considerations: The analysis of adverse experiences lived in childhood by people with chronic musculoskeletal pain shows presence of intense suffering revealed in people’s speech when associated with perceived physical pain.

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