Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences Predict Prenatal Sleep Quality

Nevarez-Brewster, Melissa; Aran, Özlü; Narayan, Angela J.; Harrall, Kylie K.; Brown, Samantha M.; Hankin, Benjamin L.; Davis, Elysia Poggi

doi:10.1007/s42844-022-00070-0

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“…Both ACEs and BCEs were tested together in association with the general and specific HiTOP dimensions to investigate the potential of BCEs to promote lower prenatal psychopathology. Consistent with prior work showing that BCEs have a promotive or direct effect on outcomes (Narayan et al, 2018;Nevarez-Brewster et al, 2022), we expected that ACEs and BCEs would each account for variance in psychopathology during pregnancy. In other words, we expected evidence for BCEs as a promotive factor for psychopathology during pregnancy, beyond participants' reported ACEs.…”

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Risk and resilience factors for psychopathology during pregnancy: An application of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)

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Pregnancy is a time of increased vulnerability to psychopathology, yet limited work has investigated the extent to which variation in psychopathology during pregnancy is shared and unshared across syndromes and symptoms. Understanding the structure of psychopathology during pregnancy, including associations with childhood experiences, may elucidate risk and resilience factors that are transdiagnostic and/or specific to particular psychopathology phenotypes. Participants were 292 pregnant individuals assessed using multiple measures of psychopathology. Confirmatory factor analyses found evidence for a structure of psychopathology consistent with the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). A common transdiagnostic factor accounted for most variation in psychopathology, and both adverse and benevolent childhood experiences (ACEs and BCEs) were associated with this transdiagnostic factor. Furthermore, pregnancy-specific anxiety symptoms most closely reflected the dimension of Fear, which may suggest shared variation with manifestations of fear that are not pregnancy-specific. ACEs and BCEs also linked to specific prenatal psychopathology involving thought problems, detachment, and internalizing, externalizing, antagonistic, and antisocial behavior. These findings extend the dimensional and hierarchical HiTOP model to pregnant individuals and show how maternal childhood risk and resilience factors relate to common and specific forms of psychopathology during pregnancy as a period of enhanced vulnerability.

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“…outcomes. These non-linear patterns may also explain why most of the variable-oriented research on interactions of childhood adversity by BCEs (and PCEs more broadly) for mental health problems has not found significant moderating effects (e.g., Doom et al, 2021;Han et al, 2023;Nevarez-Brewster et al, 2022).…”

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“…Aligned with the risk and resilience literature, BCEs were first and foremost considered to be promotive factors, which are factors that directly associate with more favorable outcomes (Masten et al, 2023; Sameroff, 2006). Indeed, in the initial psychometric study and many independent studies that followed, higher levels of BCEs-Original directly predicted lower levels of long-term mental health problems and better psychosocial adjustment across college students, young adults, and samples of pregnant individuals, consistent with promotive effects (Doom et al, 2021; Merrick et al, 2019; Narayan et al, 2018, 2023; Nevarez-Brewster et al, 2022). Of note, much of the current research on the BCEs-Original scale has only detected direct, promotive effects of BCEs on long-term outcomes, even while accounting for ACEs.…”

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A multisystem, dimensional interplay of assets versus adversities: Revised benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) in the context of childhood maltreatment, threat, and deprivation

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Merrick²,

Lane³

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Dev Psychopathol

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This study expanded the Benevolent Childhood Experiences scale (termed the “BCEs-Original” scale) with 10 new multisystem items and identified a subset of items (termed the “BCEs-Revised” scale) that are systematically less commonly reported across samples. Total BCEs-Revised scores were tested against total BCEs-Original scores and three dimensions of childhood adversity (maltreatment, threat, and deprivation) as predictors of young adulthood mental health problems (depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms). Hypotheses expected stronger inverse associations of BCEs-Revised scores than BCEs-Original scores with all mental health problems. Participants were 1,746 U.S. young adults (M = 26.6 years, SD = 4.7, range = 19–35 years; 55.3% female, 42.4% male, 2.3% gender non-conforming; 67.0% White, 10.3% Asian, 8.6% Black, 8.4% Latine, 5.7% other) who completed a 20-item BCEs scale and well-validated instruments on childhood adversities and mental health problems. Compared to BCEs-Original scores, BCEs-Revised scores were significantly more strongly inversely associated with all mental health outcomes. Compared to childhood threat and deprivation, maltreatment was significantly more strongly associated with PTSD symptoms. After controlling for current depression symptoms, BCEs-Revised scores interacted with maltreatment to predict PTSD symptoms. Maltreatment and BCEs-Revised scores also influenced PTSD symptoms in person-oriented analyses. The BCEs-Revised scale has strong psychometric properties and unique strengths in research and practice. Implications for multisystem resilience are discussed.

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“…A crucial strength of this study was the longitudinal and prospective assessment of maternal sleep quality across gestation. Sleep quality changes across pregnancy ( Nevarez-Brewster et al, 2022 ) and differentially predicts newborn brain structure. However, prenatal sleep health was assessed subjectively.…”

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“…Assessing hippocampal and amygdala morphology shortly after birth allows for the identification of prenatal influences prior to the intervening effects of postnatal life ( Demers et al, 2022 , Demers et al, 2021b ). Further, sleep quality is dynamic over pregnancy and there are dramatic changes in fetal brain development across gestation ( Lyu et al, 2020 ; Nevarez-Brewster, 2022 ; Whitaker et al, 2021 ). Sleep disruptions early in gestation are strongly linked to preterm birth ( Okun et al, 2011 ), and rodent work suggests that the timing of exposure to prenatal maternal sleep disturbances differentially affects offspring behavioral outcomes in pups exposed to sleep deprivation early and late gestation ( Peng et al, 2016 ).…”

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Longitudinal and prospective assessment of prenatal maternal sleep quality and associations with newborn hippocampal and amygdala volume

Nevarez-Brewster

Demers

Mejia

et al. 2022

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences Predict Prenatal Sleep Quality

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

Risk and resilience factors for psychopathology during pregnancy: An application of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)

Risk and resilience factors for psychopathology during pregnancy: An application of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)

A multisystem, dimensional interplay of assets versus adversities: Revised benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) in the context of childhood maltreatment, threat, and deprivation

Longitudinal and prospective assessment of prenatal maternal sleep quality and associations with newborn hippocampal and amygdala volume

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