Specifying the psychosocial pathways whereby child and adolescent adversity shape adult health outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social scientists generally agree that health disparities are produced, at least in part, by adverse social experiences, especially during childhood and adolescence. Building on this research, we use an innovative method to measure early adversity while drawing upon a biopsychosocial perspective on health to formulate a model that specifies indirect pathways whereby childhood and adolescent adversity become biologically embedded and influence adult health.

Method

Using nearly 20 years of longitudinal data from 382 Black Americans, we use repeated-measures latent class analysis (RMLCA) to construct measures of childhood/adolescent adversities and their trajectories. Then, we employ structural equation modeling to examine the direct and indirect effects of childhood

SUBMITTER: Lei MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10120399 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature