Examining the influence of adversity, family contexts, and a family-based intervention on parent and child telomere length.

ABSTRACT: Background: Exposure to adversity, trauma, and negative family environments can prematurely shorten telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes. Conversely, some evidence indicates that positive environments and psychosocial interventions can buffer the shortening of telomere length (TL). However, most work has examined individual aspects of the family environment as predictive of TL with little work investigating multiple risk and protective factors. Further, most research has not examined parent TL relative to child TL despite its heritability. Objective: In the current study, we examined interparental conflict, positive parenting, alcohol use, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and a family-based intervention as predictive of parent TL. We also examined in

SUBMITTER: Elam KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9248961 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature