Hales George K, Debowska Agata, Rowe Richard, Boduszek Daniel, Levita Liat
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
University of Chester, Chester, Cheshire, UK.
Dev Psychopathol. 2024 Sep 19:1-11. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424001470.
Childhood adversities have been linked to psychosocial outcomes, but it remains uncertain whether subtypes of adversity exert different effects on outcomes. Research is also needed to explore the dynamic interplay between adversity and psychosocial outcomes from childhood to mid-adolescence. This study aimed to investigate these relationships and their role in shaping adolescent wellbeing. Data were extracted from three timepoints of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey when participants ( = 646) were aged 10-15. Cross-lagged panel models were used to explore the relationship between cumulative adversities, and separately non-household (i.e., bullying victimization and adverse neighborhood) and household (i.e., sibling victimization, quarrelsome relationship with parents, financial struggles, and maternal psychological distress) adversities, and psychosocial outcomes (i.e., internalizing and externalizing problems, delinquency, and life satisfaction). Our results revealed that heightened cumulative adversity predicted psychosocial outcomes from childhood to mid-adolescence. Increased levels of household adversity predicted psychosocial outcomes throughout early to mid-adolescence, while non-household adversity only predicted psychosocial outcomes in early adolescence. Furthermore, worse psychosocial outcomes predicted higher levels of adversities during adolescence, highlighting bidirectionality between adversity and psychosocial outcomes. These findings underscore the varying impacts of adversity subtypes and the mutually reinforcing effects of adversities and psychosocial functioning from childhood to mid-adolescence.
童年逆境与心理社会结果有关，但逆境的亚型是否对结果产生不同影响仍不确定。还需要开展研究来探索童年到青少年中期逆境与心理社会结果之间的动态相互作用。本研究旨在调查这些关系及其在塑造青少年幸福感中的作用。数据取自英国住户纵向调查的三个时间点，参与者（n = 646）年龄在10至15岁之间。采用交叉滞后面板模型来探究累积逆境、非家庭逆境（即受欺凌和不良邻里环境）和家庭逆境（即受兄弟姐妹欺负、与父母关系争吵、经济困难和母亲心理困扰）与心理社会结果（即内化和外化问题、犯罪行为和生活满意度）之间的关系。我们的结果显示，从童年到青少年中期，累积逆境加剧会预测心理社会结果。家庭逆境水平的增加会预测整个青少年早期到中期的心理社会结果，而非家庭逆境仅能预测青少年早期的心理社会结果。此外，更糟糕的心理社会结果会预测青少年时期更高水平的逆境，这突出了逆境与心理社会结果之间的双向性。这些发现强调了逆境亚型的不同影响以及从童年到青少年中期逆境与心理社会功能之间的相互强化作用。
