Intergenerational transmission of adverse and positive childhood experiences and associations with child well-being.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parental adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) contribute to offspring adversity and poor health outcomes, but little is known about whether and to what extent parental positive childhood experiences (PCEs) influence offspring positive experiences and well-being.

Objective

To investigate the association between parent and child ACEs and PCEs and their impact on child well-being and psychopathology.

Participants and setting

A national sample of n = 1016 US parents of 1-5-year-olds completed online surveys in September 2019.

Methods

Mediation analysis in a path modeling framework was used with stratified probability weights for generalizability to the US population.

Results

Each additional parent PCE equated to 0.32 (95 % CI: 0.20, 0.45) increase

SUBMITTER: Blackwell CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11512674 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature