Adverse childhood experiences and mental health in young adults: a longitudinal survey
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- 7 March 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 7 (1) , 30
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-30
Abstract
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been consistently linked to psychiatric difficulties in children and adults. However, the long-term effects of ACEs on mental health during the early adult years have been understudied. In addition, many studies are methodologically limited by use of non-representative samples, and few studies have investigated gender and racial differences. The current study relates self-reported lifetime exposure to a range of ACEs in a community sample of high school seniors to three mental health outcomes–depressive symptoms, drug abuse, and antisocial behavior–two years later during the transition to adulthood.Keywords
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