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Childhood Adversities and First Onset of Psychiatric Disorders in a National Sample of US Adolescents
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CONTEXT: Although childhood adversities (CAs) are known to be highly co-occurring, most research examines their associations with psychiatric disorders one at a time. However, recent evidence from adult studies suggests that the associations of multiple CAs with psychiatric disorders are nonadditive, arguing for the importance of multivariate analysis of multiple CAs. To our knowledge, no attempt has been made to perform a similar kind of analysis among children or adolescents. OBJECTIVE: To examine the multivariate associations of 12 CAs with first onset of psychiatric disorders in a national sample of US adolescents. DESIGN: A US national survey of adolescents (age range, 13-17 years) assessing DSM-IV anxiety, mood, behavior, and substance use disorders and CAs. The CAs include parental loss (death, divorce, and other separations), maltreatment (neglect and physical, sexual, and emotional abuse), and parental maladjustment (violence, criminality, substance abuse, and psychopathology), as well as economic adversity. SETTING: Dual-frame household-school samples. PARTICIPANTS: In total, 6483 adolescent-parent pairs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Lifetime DSM-IV disorders assessed using the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview. RESULTS: Overall, exposure to at least 1 CA was reported by 58.3% of adolescents, among whom 59.7% reported multiple CAs. The CAs reflecting maladaptive family functioning were more strongly associated than other CAs with the onset of psychiatric disorders. The best-fitting model included terms for the type and number of CAs and distinguished between maladaptive family functioning and other CAs. The CAs predicted behavior disorders most strongly and fear disorders least strongly. The joint associations of multiple CAs were subadditive. The population-attributable risk proportions across DSM-IV disorder classes ranged from 15.7% for fear disorders to 40.7% for behavior disorders. The CAs were associated with 28.2% of all onsets of psychiatric disorders. CONCLUSIONS: Childhood adversities are common, highly co-occurring, and strongly associated with the onset of psychiatric disorders among US adolescents. The subadditive multivariate associations of CAs with the onset of psychiatric disorders have implications for targeting interventions to reduce exposure to CAs and to mitigate the harmful effects of CAs to improve population mental health.
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“Evidence from population-based epidemiological studies indicates that childhood adversity is common and associated strongly with the subsequent onset of psychopathology not only in childhood, but also in adolescence and adulthood (Cohen et al., 2001; Green et al., 2010; Kessler et al., 1997; McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
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“The exposures that give rise to experiences of deprivation and threat co-occur at high rates in children and adolescents”
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“Consistent with our hypotheses and prior studies on child trauma (Lansford et al. 2002; McLaughlin et al. 2012), we found strong associations between physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and both internalizing and externalizing symptoms in the sample of youths for whom maltreatment exposure was more prevalent.”
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“exposure to childhood adversity has been shown to explain more than 30% of mental disorders in the U.S. population (Green et al., 2010; McLaughlin et al., 2012)”
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“Greater exposure to ELA is associated with elevated risk of a wide range of mental and physical health outcomes across the lifespan, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, respiratory diseases, chronic pain, gastrointestinal and metabolic disorders, and neurological and musculoskeletal problems,4–14 as well as premature mortality.15,16”
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“Approximately one-third of all mental disorder onsets in the population are attributable to exposure to childhood adversity (Green et al., 2010; Kessler et al., 2010; McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationMachlin, L., Miller, A. B., Snyder, J., McLaughlin, K. A., & Sheridan, M. A. (2019) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00080 · Cited by 204
“Early-life adversity (ELA) impacts over half of the US population and is strongly associated with risk for psychopathology (Green et al., 2010; McLaughlin et al., 2012; McLaughlin, 2016).”
BackgroundSelf-citationCarliner, H., Keyes, K. M., McLaughlin, K. A., Meyers, J. L., Dunn, E. C., & Martins, S. S. (2016) · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2016.05.010 · Cited by 187
“Alternatively, this statistical interaction could represent a constellation of adversity related to family dysfunction, as discussed in prior studies.(10,46) Future work should use latent variable techniques to further explore these complex associations and pathways.”
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Dunn, E. C., Soare, T. W., Raffeld, M. R., Busso, D. S., Crawford, K. M., Davis, K. A., Fisher, V. A., Slopen, N., Smith, A. D. A. C., Tiemeier, H., et al. (2018) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291718000181 · Cited by 179
“However, the prevalence of these adversities, including those capturing experiences of abuse, were comparable with estimates derived from nationally-representative samples (Gilbert et al. 2009; McLaughlin et al. 2012).”
BackgroundResultJohnson, D., Policelli, J., Li, M., Dharamsi, A., Hu, Q., Sheridan, M. A., McLaughlin, K. A., & Wade, M. (2021) · Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine · doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.2511 · Cited by 209
“Previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses have examined the association between ELA and executive functioning, but these studies either (1) conducted nonquantitative reviews of general ELA and executive functioning31; (2) treated adversity as a composite measure32-34; or (3) examined ELA types according to some ot…”
BackgroundSelf-citationHalpern, S. C., Schuch, F. B., Scherer, J. N., Sordi, A. O., Pachado, M., Dalbosco, C., Fara, L., Pechansky, F., Kessler, F., & Von Diemen, L. (2018) · Child Abuse Review · doi:10.1002/car.2534 · Cited by 173
Psychological trauma as a transdiagnostic risk factor for mental disorder: an umbrella meta-analysis
Hogg, B., Gardoki-Souto, I., Valiente-Gómez, A., Rosa, A., Fortea, L., Raduà, J., Amann, B., & Moreno-Alcázar, A. (2022) · European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience · doi:10.1007/s00406-022-01495-5 · Cited by 156
Guddal, M. H., Stensland, S. Ø., Småstuen, M. C., Johnsen, M. B., Zwart, J., & Storheim, K. (2019) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028555 · Cited by 206
Childhood abuse and reduced cortical thickness in brain regions involved in emotional processing
Gold, A. L., Sheridan, M. A., Peverill, M., Busso, D. S., Lambert, H. K., Alves, S., Pine, D. S., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2016) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/jcpp.12630 · Cited by 164
“Child abuse is associated with elevated risk for a wide range of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology in children and adolescents (McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
BackgroundSelf-citationChild abuse, neural structure, and adolescent psychopathology: a longitudinal study
Busso, D. S., McLaughlin, K. A., Brueck, S., Peverill, M., Gold, A. L., & Sheridan, M. A. (2017) · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2017.01.013 · Cited by 164
“Adolescence is a uniquely vulnerable window for the onset of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology,(29) and child abuse is a known risk factor for myriad psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.(2) Our findings suggest that structural changes within the medial temporal lobe may be one pathway underlying th…”
BackgroundSelf-citationBoecker, R., Holz, N. E., Buchmann, A. F., Blomeyer, D., Plichta, M. M., Wolf, I., Baumeister, S., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Banaschewski, T., Brandeis, D., et al. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104185 · Cited by 157
Basu, A., McLaughlin, K. A., Misra, S., & Koenen, K. C. (2017) · Clinical Psychology Science and Practice · doi:10.1111/cpsp.12191 · Cited by 173
“4 million referrals of children for abuse or neglect (CDC, 2014), and population-based studies suggest even higher rates of child maltreatment and domestic violence exposure (Green et al., 2010; McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationModeling life course pathways from adverse childhood experiences to adult mental health
Jones, T. M., Nurius, P. S., Song, C., & Fleming, C. M. (2018) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.03.005 · Cited by 162
Promoting youth mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study
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Self-citationThe effects of early life adversity on children’s mental health and cognitive functioning
Wade, M., Wright, L., & Finegold, K. E. (2022) · Translational Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/s41398-022-02001-0 · Cited by 184
“The association between ELA and mental health difficulties is especially concerning given that more than half of all children and youth will experience at least one form of ELA by adulthood [10, 11], and that ELA accounts for the onset of roughly half of all mental health problems in childhood [6, 10].”
BackgroundMosley-Johnson, E., Garacci, E., Wagner, N., Mendez, C. E., Williams, J. S., & Egede, L. E. (2018) · Quality of Life Research · doi:10.1007/s11136-018-2054-6 · Cited by 185
“1 3 In addition to affecting physical health, childhood adversity is linked to developing psychological disorders as people age [6, 7, 16].”
Dunn, E. C., Nishimi, K. M., Gomez, S. H., Powers, A. D., & Bradley, B. (2017) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2017.10.045 · Cited by 166
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Gee, D. G. (2021) · American Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.21090944 · Cited by 148
“Between one-half and two-thirds of youths experience at least one form of adversity or traumatic event prior to adulthood (1–4), and childhood adversity is estimated to play a role in one in three psychiatric disorders in adulthood (4).”
BackgroundMcLaughlin, K. A., Sheridan, M. A., Alves, S., & Mendes, W. B. (2014) · Psychosomatic Medicine · doi:10.1097/psy.0000000000000098 · Cited by 149
Self-citationIverson, K. M., Dick, A. M., McLaughlin, K. A., Smith, B. N., Bell, M. E., Gerber, M. R., Cook, N., & Mitchell, K. S. (2012) · Psychology of Violence · doi:10.1037/a0030956 · Cited by 159
Self-citationTrauma Informed Care: A Commentary and Critique
Berliner, L., & Kolko, D. J. (2016) · Child Maltreatment · doi:10.1177/1077559516643785 · Cited by 148
“McLaughlin et al. (2012) reported that the population attributable risk of childhood adversities accounts for 47% of childhood onset of psychiatric disorders, 32% of adolescent onset, 29% of early adulthood, and 39% of later adulthood onset.”
BackgroundDennison, M., Rosen, M. L., Sambrook, K., Jenness, J. L., Sheridan, M. A., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2017) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/cdev.13011 · Cited by 163
Self-citationRodman, A. M., Jenness, J. L., Weissman, D. G., Pine, D. S., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2019) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.04.033 · Cited by 152
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“There is also robust evidence for the strong effects of early adversity on risk for psychopathology [8].”
BackgroundPrevalence of adverse childhood experiences in school-aged youth: A systematic review (1990–2015)
Carlson, J. S., Yohannan, J., Darr, C. L., Turley, M. R., Lárez, N. A., & Perfect, M. M. (2019) · International Journal of School & Educational Psychology · doi:10.1080/21683603.2018.1548397 · Cited by 163
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Self-citationRetractedPrevious maltreatment and present mental health in a high-risk adolescent population
Greger, H. K., Myhre, A. K., Lydersen, S., & Jozefiak, T. (2015) · Child Abuse & Neglect · doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.05.003 · Cited by 167
McGrath, J. J., McLaughlin, K. A., Saha, S., Aguilar‐Gaxiola, S., Al-Hamzawi, A., Alonso, J., Bruffaerts, R., de Girolamo, G., de Jonge, P., Esan, O., et al. (2017) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291716003263 · Cited by 155
“With regard to the latter possibility, extensive evidence suggests that CAs are associated with elevated risk of first onset of a wide range of mental disorders (Green et al., 2010, Kessler et al., 2010, McLaughlin et al., 2010b, McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
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Long-term mental health in unaccompanied refugee minors: pre- and post-flight predictors
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Building Capacity for Trauma-Informed Care in the Child Welfare System
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“Childhood psychosocial adversity has been shown to explain more than 20% to 30% of all onsets of mental disorders.(15,16)More specifically, a largebodyof literature links ACEs, particularly abuse (threat) andneglect (deprivation), to risk for depression later in life.”
Adverse childhood experiences and preschool suspension expulsion: A population study
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“However, in a substantial portion of youth, there is a high degree of co-occurrence among different types of adverse experiences (Dong et al., 2004; Finkelhor, Ormrod, & Turner, 2007; Green et al., 2010; McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
BackgroundVagal regulation and internalizing psychopathology among adolescents exposed to childhood adversity
McLaughlin, K. A., Alves, S., & Sheridan, M. A. (2013) · Developmental Psychobiology · doi:10.1002/dev.21187 · Cited by 126
“Exposure to CA is remarkably common, with population-based studies estimating that nearly half of US adolescents and adults have experienced at least one form of such adversity in childhood or adolescence (Green et al., 2010; Kessler et al., 1997; McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
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“Previous research examining the impacts of exposure to early life stress on the development of youth symptomatology also sheds light on the mental health implications of youth exposure to stress, underscoring risk for development of internalizing and externalizing problems (McLaughlin et al., 2012).”
BackgroundImpact of Early Life Stress on Reward Circuit Function and Regulation
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“Exposure to psychosocial stressors is a potent risk factor for the onset of mental disorders in children and adolescents (Cohen et al., 2001; McLaughlin et al., 2012; Rudolph & Hammen, 1999).”
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“…the most commonly occurring forms of internalizing (e.g., anxiety and mood disorders) and externalizing (e.g., substance use and disruptive behavior disorders) psychopathology in youth (Carliner, Gary, McLaughlin, & Keyes, 2017; McLaughlin et al., 2012; Oswald, Heil, & Goldbeck, 2010 for review).”
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Neurobehavioral markers of resilience to depression amongst adolescents exposed to child abuse
Dennison, M. J., Sheridan, M. A., Busso, D. S., Jenness, J. L., Peverill, M., Rosen, M. L., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2016) · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · doi:10.1037/abn0000215 · Cited by 117
“Childhood maltreatment is associated with elevated risk for numerous types of psychopathology across the life span (Green et al., 2010; McLaughlin et al., 2012), including major depression (Norman et al.”
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“…of emotional and behavioral disorders (D'Andrea, Ford, Stolbach, Spinazzola, & van der Kolk, 2012; Greger, Myhre, Lydersen, & Jozefiak, 2015; McLaughlin et al., 2012; Segura, Pereda, Guilera, & Abad, 2016) and can lead to maladaptation, not only in childhood, but adulthood as well…”
BackgroundNeurobiological models of the impact of adversity on education
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“[33 ,34] the arguments and predictions described in the current review are laid out in more detail focusing on specific hypothesized neurobiological outcomes.”
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“…hypothesis that the exposure to early stressful life events is associated with an increased vulnerability to major psychiatric disorders in adulthood including PTSD, personality disorders, substance use disorders, unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia (Mclaughlin et al., 2012).”
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- Authors
- McLaughlin, K. A., Greif Green, J., Gruber, M. J., Sampson, N. A., Zaslavsky, A. M., & Kessler, R. C.
- Affiliations
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Boston University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kessler, Ronald C.
- Venue
- Archives of General Psychiatry
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2012-11-01
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1151
- ISSN
- 0003-990X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3490224
- OpenAlex
- W2001620133
- Cited by
- 992
- References
- 69
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- FWCI
- 30.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Archives of General Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Pfizer
- AstraZeneca
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Sanofi
- SRA International
- Kaiser Permanente
- Janssen Scientific Affairs
- National Institutes of Health (5r13mh066849-04, 5r01mh069864-04, 5r01mh070884-05)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R13-MH-066849, R01-MH66627, R01MH066627, R01‐MH070884, R01MH077883, K01MH085710, U01-MH-60220, K01MH092526, U01MH060220, R01‐MH069864)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA016558)
- Fogarty International Center (R03TW006481)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- childhood adversity, adolescents, subadditivity, parental loss, child abuse, economic adversity, behavior disorders, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, substance use disorders, population attributable risk
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Mental Disorders, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Health Surveys, Humans, Life Change Events, Male, Personality Assessment, Risk Factors, United States, Comorbidity, Multivariate Analysis, Odds Ratio, Age of Onset, Mood Disorders, Substance-Related Disorders
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