scholarly journals Does Resilience Mediate the Association of Adverse Early Childhood Experiences With Emotional and Behavioural Problems?

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriama Lackova Rebicova ◽  
Zuzana Dankulincova Veselska ◽  
Daniela Husarova ◽  
Andrea Madarasova Geckova ◽  
Danielle E. M. C. Jansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Behavioural Problems ◽  
Emotional And Behavioural Problems ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Mediator Role ◽  
External Sources ◽  
The Relationship

Objectives: To explore the role of resilience as a mediator in the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and emotional and behavioural problems (EBP) among adolescents.Methods: We used data from the Slovak 2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, comprising 2,839 adolescents aged 13–15 (mean age 13.93; 49.6% boys). We used multivariate linear regression performed on 5000 bootstrap samples adjusted for age, gender, family affluence to explore mediation of the associations between ACE (measured using the adapted Adverse Childhood Experience Questionnaire) and EBP (measured using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire) by resilience (measured with the Child and Youth Resilience Measure).Results: We found ACE [B = 0.78; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.67|0.90] and resilience (B = −0.73; 95% CI: −0.79|−0.67) to be significantly associated with EBP. The association of ACE and EBP was mediated by resilience. The mediated indirect effect of resilience was ab = 0.25; 95% CI: 0.18|0.32.Conclusion: Resilience seems to play a mediator role in the relationship between ACE and EBP. Helping adolescents with ACE to build and use internal and external sources of resilience can decrease the negative impact of ACE on EBP.

scholarly journals Does Schoolmate and Teacher Support Buffer against the Effect of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Emotional and Behavioural Problems?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 13009
Author(s):  
Miriama Lackova Rebicova ◽  
Zuzana Dankulincova Veselska ◽  
Daniela Husarova ◽  
Andrea Madarasova Geckova ◽  
Danielle E. M. C. Jansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Confidence Intervals ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Teacher Support ◽  
Behavioural Problems ◽  
Emotional And Behavioural Problems ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Adverse Childhood

This study aims to explore the associations of schoolmate and teacher support with emotional and behavioural problems (EBP) and whether schoolmate and teacher support affects the associations of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and of EBP in adolescence. We obtained data from 5220 students aged from 11 to 15 (48.7% boys), who participated in the Health Behaviour in a School-aged Children study (2018, Slovakia). Using logistic regression adjusted for gender, age and family affluence we assessed the modification of the relations of ACE and EBP by schoolmate and teacher support. Schoolmate and teacher support decreased the probability of EBP (Odds Ratios, 95% confidence intervals: 0.76, 0.74|0.79; and 0.86, 0.83|0.89, respectively). However, we found no statistically significant interactions of schoolmate and teacher support regarding the association of ACE with EBP. Schoolmate and teacher support decreased the likelihood of EBP among adolescents but do not buffer the relation of any previous ACE with EBP.

What Can Help? Examining Levels of Substance (Non)use as a Protective Factor in the Effect of ACEs on Crime

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Craig ◽  
Jonathan Intravia ◽  
Kevin T. Wolff ◽  
Michael T. Baglivio
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Southern State ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The Relationship

Although the deleterious impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on offending has been established, less is known about the possible protective factors that may buffer this relationship. Using a sample of over 28,000 adjudicated delinquents from a large southern state, the current study investigated the role of substance (non)use on the relationship between ACEs and recidivism and whether these results differed by race/ethnicity and sex. Results illustrate that ACEs increase the likelihood of recidivism among youth who engaged in moderate-to-high substance use. However, this effect was not found among youth who reported little-to-no substance use. Furthermore, these effects were largely consistent across race/ethnicity and sex. Policy implications of this buffering effect are discussed as well as limitations and directions for future research.

scholarly journals Childhood Emotional Abuse and Cyberbullying Perpetration: The Role of Dark Personality Traits

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051988993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kagan Kircaburun ◽  
Peter Jonason ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths ◽  
Engin Aslanargun ◽  
Emrah Emirtekin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Childhood Emotional Abuse ◽  
The Relationship

Dark personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, spitefulness, and sadism) are associated with adverse childhood experiences and deviant online behaviors. However, their mediating role between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying has never previously been investigated. We examined direct and indirect associations of childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying via dark personality traits among 772 participants. Men were better characterized by dark personality traits and were more likely to engage in cyberbullying than women, and there were no sex differences in childhood emotional abuse. Collectively, dark traits fully mediated the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying in men, with partial mediation in the total sample and women. More specifically, Machiavellianism and spitefulness were mediators in both samples, sadism was a mediator in men and the total sample, and psychopathy was a mediator in the total sample and women. The dark personality traits can account for the association between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying, especially among men.

scholarly journals Origins of Adulthood Personality: The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Fletcher ◽  
Stefanie Schurer
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Important Pathway ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Parental Maltreatment

Abstract We test whether adverse childhood experiences – exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health – are associated with age 30 personality traits. We use rich longitudinal data from a large, representative cohort of young US Americans and exploit the differences across siblings to control for the confounding influences of shared environmental and genetic factors. We find that maltreatment experiences are significantly and robustly associated with neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness to experience, but not with agreeableness and extraversion. High levels of neuroticism are linked to sexual abuse and neglect; low levels of conscientiousness and openness to experience are linked to parental neglect. The estimated associations are significantly reduced in magnitude when controlling for physical or mental health, suggesting that adolescent health could be one important pathway via which maltreatment affects adulthood personality. Maltreatment experiences, in combination with their health effects, explain a significant fraction of the relationship between adulthood conscientiousness and earnings or human capital. Our findings provide a possible explanation for why personality traits are important predictors of adulthood labor market outcomes.

scholarly journals Adverse Childhood Experiences and Empathy: The Role of Interparental Conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Ana V. Antunes ◽  
Patrícia Oliveira ◽  
Jorge Cardoso ◽  
Telma C. Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Interparental Conflict ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Interparental Violence ◽  
Childhood Victimization ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
The Relationship

The literature shows that adverse life experiences may harm individuals. The main objectives of this research were to study the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and empathy in adulthood and analyse differences between victims and nonvictims of interparental conflict. Our research evidenced that adverse childhood experiences affect individuals’ empathy in adulthood, and victims of interparental violence experienced other childhood victimization.

scholarly journals Does family communication moderate the association between adverse childhood experiences and emotional and behavioural problems?

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriama Lackova Rebicova ◽  
Zuzana Dankulincova Veselska ◽  
Daniela Husarova ◽  
Daniel Klein ◽  
Andrea Madarasova Geckova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Communication ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Behavioural Problems ◽  
Emotional And Behavioural Problems ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood

The Influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence Among Black Men: The Moderating Role of Alcohol Use

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110279
Author(s):  
Kerry A. Lee ◽  
Charlotte Lyn Bright ◽  
Paul Sacco ◽  
Melissa E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Ipv Perpetration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

This study examined the moderating role of alcohol use on the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among Black men in the United States. We conducted bivariate and logistic regression analyses using data from Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). Bivariate results revealed significant relationships between eight of the 10 ACE factors physical neglect; emotional, physical and sexual abuse; witnessing a mother being abused; and having a parent guardian with an alcohol and drug problem and who was incarcerated and IPV perpetration. Similarly, examination of the relationship between ACEs and alcohol use in adulthood also revealed significant associations, with the exception of exposure to emotional neglect, emotional and sexual abuse, and witnessing a mother being abused. Findings from the logistic regression models revealed that alcohol use significantly moderated the relationship between ACEs and IPV perpetration, but only for men exposed to 1, 2, and ≥4 adversities in childhood. However, alcohol use appeared to exacerbate the relationship between ACEs and IPV perpetration for men without childhood adversity. Implications for practice, policy, and areas for further research are discussed.

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