Compounding Stress: Childhood Adversity as a Risk Factor for Adulthood Trauma Exposure in the Health and Retirement Study.

ABSTRACT: Childhood adversity (CA) and adulthood traumatic experiences (ATEs) are common and unequally distributed in the general population. Early stressors may beget later stressors and alter life-course trajectories of stressor exposure. Gender differences exist regarding the risk of specific stressors. However, few studies have examined the associations between specific types of CA and ATEs. Using a large-scale sample of older adults, we aimed to (a) determine if specific or cumulative CA increased the risk for specific or cumulative ATEs and (b) examine whether these associations were moderated by gender. In a sample from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (N = 15,717; M_age = 67.57 years, SD = 10.54), cross-sectional Poisson and logistic regression models were fitted to assess the

SUBMITTER: Burgin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7887022 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature