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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"early adversity"”.
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Early adversity and individual differences in adolescent mental health
… impact both immediate and long-term wellbeing. Early adversity, in particular, confers significant risks to adolescent mental health. Thus, adolescence is an important window for researchers to investigate processes underlying different outcomes. However, the heterogeneity across the various …
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The Effects of Early Adversity on Women’s Fertility Intentions: An Intuitive Inquiry
… health. Specifically, the possible role that early adversity has on fertility intentions. Prior to presenting my understandings of these topics (in the form of preliminary lenses), I offer a description of theories that have been used to understand reproductive attitudes and behavior. I argue …
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Early Adversity and Cardiovascular Stress Response: Stress Reactivity Or Biological Sensitivity to Context
… hypothesis (SRH) posits highly stressful early environments contribute to exaggerated cardiovascular (CV) reactivity and/or slower CV recovery, which in turn contributes to CV disease. These associations are well-supported in the literature; however, a growing number of studies have …
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The effect of early adversity on adult spatial cognition : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Exposure to traumatic childhood events can lead to a range of behavioural, psychological, and physiological consequences. Previous studies have shown that neurobiological changes in reaction to severe stress may cause lasting damage to particular neural regions, including the hippocampus and the …
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Early Adversity, Emotion Regulation, Object Relational Functioning, and the Moderating Effect of Gender Identity: A community sample study
… pathology, substance use pathology, and early experiences of stress and adversity ranging from average/everyday stressors to traumatic and potentially traumatic experiences. Whether perceived within one’s self or perceived in others, the experience of emotion has been evidenced as …
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Sensitization or inoculation: Investigating the effects of early adversity on the development of personality traits and stress experiences in adulthood
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The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, parenting behavior, and parenting self-efficacy in African American families with low-income
<p>Early trauma is linked to adverse adult outcomes, including parenting deficits. While prior research has emphasized specific trauma types and severe parenting deficits, less is known about how cumulative trauma shapes normative parenting behaviors. Parenting self-efficacy (PSE) has been proposed …
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A cross-species network science approach to childhood adversity
… organ whose development is responsive to its early-life environment. This means that early experiences shape the biological substrates of lifelong health and well-being. Indeed, exposure to significant adversity in childhood increases the risk of a range of cognitive and behavioural …
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The Development of Reward Sensitivity- Exploring the Role of Culture and Parental Education on Adolescent Development
… (LH) theory suggests that exposure to early childhood adversity (e.g., more typical in lower SES circumstances) unconsciously predisposes individuals toward decisions that favor instant gratification. Given that reward-seeking may increase during adolescence and early adversity may …
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THE IMPACT OF STRESS EXPOSURE ON PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES DURING EMERGING ADULTHOOD: THE BUFFERING ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY
… 1 and completed a self-report battery assessing early adversity, recent life stress, psychological flexibility, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and psychological well-being. A subset of participants from Study 1 (N = 52; M = 19.42 years [SD = 1.55], 90.4% female; 55.8% white) completed Study 2. …
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Attachment disorganization in infancy: a developmental precursor to maladaptive social information processing at age eight
… especially for children who have experienced early adversity, and suggest that these children are at risk for developing problematic peer relations in middle childhood. Findings are discussed in terms of strengths and limitations of the study and suggestions for future research.
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The quiet crisis: An interpretive phenomenological study on parental experiences of youth inpatient treatment
… framework was crafted to extrapolate how early adversity, intergenerational patterns, and cultural influences can be catalysts to stigmatized beliefs surrounding mental health and influence treatment efficacy. The study resulted in five major themes: Intergenerational Transmission; A …
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Vulnerability risk factors and physiological mechanisms underlying the relationship between stressor exposure and mental health outcomes during the perinatal period
… moderating effect of historical stressors (e.g., early adversity) on responsiveness of postpartum symptoms to a concurrent interpersonal stressor (e.g., relationship conflict). Chapter 3 investigates whether prenatal stress exposures are associated with alterations of the gut microbiota and …
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Early Undernutrition and Unmet Learning Needs: Exploring Relationships between Stunting, Cognition, and Teacher Perceptions of Early Grade Learning in Ghana
… to reach their fifth birthday than ever before, early poverty-related exposures such as food insecurity, infectious diseases, and pollution carry significant health risks which shape their development. Simultaneously, sustained efforts to improve educational access for all children, including …
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Mediating and Moderating Effects of Child Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Reactivity in the Association Between Early Childhood Adversity and Later Adjustment
Early childhood adversity has been shown to predict mental health problems, although the influence of adversity on child adjustment varies significantly (Caspi et al., 2002). Biologically based individual differences in arousal and regulatory systems are thought to influence the relation between …
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Normative Range Parenting and the Developing Brain: Investigating the Functional and Structural Neural Correlates of Parenting in the Absence of Trauma
<p>Research on extreme deviations in early life caregiving has provided valuable insight into the effects of early adversity on brain development and risk for psychopathology. However, much remains unknown about the impact of normative range variation in parenting on these same processes. The …
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Youths of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Study on Early Life Sent-down Experience and Later Life Health
… has increasingly recognised that experiences in early life may have consequences for health problems in later life that unfold across the life course. Despite the accumulating evidence in the life course study on the early origins of adult health, the nature and strength of associations vary …
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Childhood Trauma And Emotion Processing Neurocircuitry
… need to understand their biological bases in early life. In this dissertation, we evaluate how childhood trauma impacts emotion processing neurocircuitry in a sample of high-risk urban youth, ages 7-15. In four inter-related studies, we test neural function and functional connectivity of core …
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Exploring Nature's Role as a Psychological Resource for Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences
<p>Humanity's relationship with the natural environment impacts various aspects of health and well-being. This study examined whether engagement with nature moderates the adverse effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on psychological health. ACEs, which include experiences such as abuse, …
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Social Determinants of Immature Phenotype and Survival in Wild Baboons and Other Mammals
… live-born individuals, as well as data from nearly 300 failed pregnancies. This extraordinary dataset has allowed me to explore a wide range of questions focused on offspring survival and phenotype in early life, before and after birth. This historical data has been my primary tool in seeking …