Perceived emotional support mediates the association between childhood family adversity and adolescent mental health in the UK millennium cohort.

ABSTRACT: Childhood family adversity is associated with increased risk of developing mental health problems over the life course. We investigated how perceived emotional support in adolescence may mitigate the impact of childhood family adversity on adolescent mental health. We used longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study on 9,269 children followed to age 17 years. Individuals were assigned to exposure trajectories characterised using group-based trajectory models that included measures of poverty and family dynamics up to age 14 years. Using counterfactual causal mediation analysis and four-way decomposition modelling approach, we evaluated how perceived emotional support at age 14 (measured using the three-item Short Social Provisions Scale) influences the association of childhood fa

SUBMITTER: Adjei NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12663155 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature