Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent mental health: Understanding the roles of gender and teenage risk and protective factors.

ABSTRACT: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been linked to a host of negative outcomes in adolescence. However, research on the impact of ACEs on adolescent mental health has produced mixed results, leaving it unclear how ACEs may relate to depression and anxiety during adolescence. Moreover, this body of work has neglected how gender, risk and protective factors may influence these relationships, despite research demonstrating gender differences in both responses to adversity and in the impact of risk and protective factors on maladaptive outcomes in adolescence. Drawing on a sample of at-risk youth from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2455; age 14-18; 48 % female, 50 % Black, 23 % Hispanic), the current study examines the association between ACEs during early childhood

SUBMITTER: Gajos JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10840483 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature