Assessing within- and between-family variations in an expanded measure of childhood adversity.

ABSTRACT: Previous measures of childhood adversity have enabled the identification of powerful links with later-life wellbeing. The challenge for the next generation of childhood adversity assessment is to better characterize those links through comprehensive, fine-grained measurement strategies. The expanded, retrospective measure of childhood adversity presented here leveraged analytic and theoretical advances to examine multiple domains of childhood adversity at both the microlevel of siblings and the macrolevel of families. Despite the fact that childhood adversity most often occurs in the context of families, there is a dearth of studies that have validated childhood adversity measures on multiple members of the same families. Multilevel psychometric analyses of this childhood adversity measure

SUBMITTER: Morrill MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6488357 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature