Adverse childhood experiences and young children’s social and emotional development: the role of maternal depression, self-efficacy, and social support

Treat, Amy E.; Sheffield-Morris, Amanda; Williamson, Amy; Hays-Grudo, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/03004430.2019.1578220

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“…Although the measure of child development targeted the significant developmental milestones, this measure only covered the developmental aspects of gross motor, fine motor, language, and social development. Nonetheless, the impacts of maternal ACEs and prenatal mental health problems on the offspring's cognitive and socioemotional development are of the most concern, especially if through the psychosocial mechanism (Kingston, McDonald, Austin, & Tough, 2015; Treat, Sheffield-Morris, Williamson, & Hays-Grudo, 2019). Moreover, some unmeasured factors in this study, including parenting roles, parenting behaviors, and parent–child interactions, may also be important influence factors of child development (Chiang, Lin, Lee, & Lee, 2015; Glascoe & Leew, 2010).…”

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The impacts of maternal childhood adversity, stress, and mental health on child development at 6 months in Taiwan: A follow-up study

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Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is not only associated with one's adverse health outcomes in adulthood but also increases the risk of child developmental problems in offspring. However, the mechanisms involved in the transmission of the effects of maternal ACEs to the offspring largely remain unexplored. This study sought to identify possible psychosocial pathways of intergenerational effects of maternal ACEs on child development at 6 months. Data from a longitudinal study on maternal childhood adversity and maternal psychosocial risk during pregnancy as well as maternal mental health problems and child development at 6 months postnatal were used. Structural equation modeling with bootstrapping was used to estimate the indirect effects of maternal ACEs on child development at 6 months. The model showed that maternal ACEs indirectly influenced offspring's development via maternal stressful events during pregnancy and pre- and postnatal mental health problems. This finding highlights the possible interventions at the prenatal and postnatal periods. Early identification of women who have ACEs or who are at psychosocial risk during pre- and postnatal periods is critical to provide interventions to buffer those negative effects on offspring's development. Future studies are needed to longitudinally assess the effects of maternal ACEs on child development over time.

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“…Research on the intergenerational impact of ACEs, which focuses on associations between parent ACEs and children's health, development, and functioning, has found continuity in risk of poor outcomes. 33 , 34 , 36 , 46 , 50 , 55 , 58 Thus, parent ACEs may contribute to chronic pain in youth, especially given their association with parent factors (eg, mental and physical health) that are implicated in pediatric chronic pain. 4 , 14 , 16 , 26 , 42 , 46 …”

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Adverse childhood experiences in parents of youth with chronic pain: prevalence and comparison with a community-based sample

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Dobson

Madigan

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“…The seminal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) studies which retrospectively assessed multiple early adversities found positive associations between cumulative adversities experienced during childhood with a range of adverse adult health outcomes [7][8][9][10] , many of which are the biggest contributors to the global burden of diseases 11 . In children, cumulative adversities are predictive of brain functioning 12 , general cognitive ability [13][14][15] , executive functioning 14,16 , social-emotional outcomes 17,18 , and several psychopathologies in adolescence 19,20 . This epidemiological evidence is supported by neuroscientific findings linking early adversities with structural and functional impairments in developing brain networks [21][22][23] .…”

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The effect of cumulative early life adversities, and their differential mediation through hair cortisol levels, on childhood growth and cognition: Three-year follow-up of a birth cohort in rural India

Mukherjee

Bhopal²,

Bhavnani³

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Background: Early adversities negatively impact children’s growth and development, putatively mediated by chronic physiological stress resulting from these adverse experiences. We aimed to estimate the associations between prospectively measured cumulative early adversities with growth and cognition outcomes in rural Indian preschool children and to explore if hair cortisol concentration (HCC), a measure of chronic physiological stress, mediated the above association. Methods: Participants were recruited from the SPRING cRCT in rural Haryana, India. Adversities experienced through pregnancy and the first year of life were measured in 1304 children at 12-months. HCC was measured at 12-months in 845 of them. Outcome measures were height-for-age-z-score (HAZ), weight-for-age-z-score (WAZ) and cognition, measured in 1124 children followed up at 3-years. Cognition was measured using a validated tablet-based gamified tool named DEEP. Results: Cumulative adversities at 12-months were inversely associated with all outcomes measures at 3-years. Each unit increase in adversity score led to a decrease of 0·08 units [95% confidence interval (CI):-0·11,-0·06] in DEEP-z-score; 0·12 units [-0·14,-0·09] in HAZ and 0·11 units [-0·13,-0·09] in WAZ. 12-month HCC was inversely associated with DEEP-z-score (-0·09 [-0·16,-0·01]) and HAZ (-0·12 [-0·20,-0·04]), but the association with WAZ was not significant (p = 0·142). HCC marginally mediated the association between cumulative adversities and HAZ (proportion mediated = 0·06, p = 0·014). No evidence of mediation was found for the cognition outcome. Conclusions: Cumulative early adversities and HCC measured at 12-months have persistent negative effects on child growth and cognition at 3-years. The association between adversities and these two child outcomes were differentially mediated by HCC, with no evidence of mediation observed for the cognitive outcome. Future studies should focus on other stress biomarkers, and alternate pathways such as the immune, inflammation and cellular ageing pathways, to unpack key mechanisms underlying the established relationship between early adversities and poor child outcomes.

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Adverse childhood experiences and young children’s social and emotional development: the role of maternal depression, self-efficacy, and social support

Cited by 33 publications

References 55 publications

The impacts of maternal childhood adversity, stress, and mental health on child development at 6 months in Taiwan: A follow-up study

The impacts of maternal childhood adversity, stress, and mental health on child development at 6 months in Taiwan: A follow-up study

Adverse childhood experiences in parents of youth with chronic pain: prevalence and comparison with a community-based sample

The effect of cumulative early life adversities, and their differential mediation through hair cortisol levels, on childhood growth and cognition: Three-year follow-up of a birth cohort in rural India

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