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Citation

Sousa C, Mason WA, Herrenkohl TI, Prince D, Herrenkohl RC, Russo MJ. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2018; 88(2): 180-188.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

10.1037/ort0000283

PMID

28816488

Abstract

There is a great deal of evidence about the mental health implications of physical child abuse and environmental stressors, or hardships that people experience at the household and neighborhood level (e.g., neighborhood violence; economic hardship, substance abuse, or conflict among family members). Yet, studies often focus on either abuse or environmental stress, not both, or examine abuse and environmental stressors as a combined set of experiences. Less is known, therefore, about how child abuse and environmental stress might work as either distinct or interrelated risks to diminish mental health over time. In this longitudinal study, we used path analyses to examine the cumulative effects of physical child abuse and environmental stressors on adult depressive symptoms among a sample of children followed into adulthood (N = 356). The goal was to assess whether chronic physical child abuse remains an independent predictor of adult outcomes once we accounted for the cumulative effects of household and neighborhood stressors across the lifecourse. Cumulative measures of physical child abuse and environmental stress each independently predicted a higher likelihood of adult depressive symptoms (ß =.122, p <.01 and ß =.283, p <.001, respectively). After accounting for adolescent depressive symptoms, only cumulative environmental stressors independently predicted depressive symptoms (ß =.202, p <.001). Tests of the indirect effect of cumulative environmental stress on the relationship between cumulative physical abuse and adult depressive symptoms were marginally statistically significant.

RESULTS add to literature that examines child abuse, adversity, and lifecourse perspectives on health. (PsycINFO Database Record

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