Differential Associations from Parental Childhood Adversity to Child Psychopathology: Evidence from Sexual and Gender Minority Families

Moderators of Mental Health Outcomes Following Childhood and Adolescent Image-Based Sexual Abuse.

Image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) during childhood and adolescence is linked to substantial mental health risk, yet harms are not experienced uniformly. This study tested moderators of the association between cumulative IBSA exposure (number of IBSA forms endorsed before age 18) and psychological distress, suicide attemp...

Intergenerational pathways from maternal childhood maltreatment to offspring adjustment: Mediating roles of attachment, sensitivity, and maternal psychopathology.

BACKGROUND Maternal childhood maltreatment might have long-lasting consequences, not only at the individual level but also within the family system. Yet few studies have used longitudinal observational measures of mother-child interaction to explain the consequences. OBJECTIVE This study examined the longitudinal lin...

The impact of parent-child relationship on adolescent social adjustment following childhood abuse: the moderation of the serotonergic multilocus genetic variation

Introduction Childhood adverse experiences appear to increase sensitivity to stress, potentially influencing lifelong social adjustment. Previous studies suggest that serotonergic multilocus genetic variation moderates the relationship between environmental factors and social adjustment. Methods This study investigated...

Associations between adverse childhood experiences and schizotypal personality traits in a non-clinical sample.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with elevated risk for psychosis-spectrum outcomes, yet less is known about whether specific forms of adversity differentially relate to schizotypal traits as a function of gender. The present study examined whether gender moderates associations between individual ACE...

Reciprocal associations between parent-child relationships and adolescent depressive symptoms: The longitudinal mediation role of insomnia and sex differences.

Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent mental health: trajectories of internalizing, externalizing and prosocial behaviour in a longitudinal cohort study

Abstract Aims Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) shape children’s socioemotional development, yet longitudinal evidence from low- and middle-income countries remains limited. This study examined how ACEs relate to internalizing, externalizing and prosocial behaviours from childhood to adolescence in a rural Pakistani...