Neighborhood disadvantage, household chaos, and personal stressors: exploring early-life contextual factors and current mental health symptoms in college students

Richie, Fallon; Langhinrichsen‐Rohling, Jennifer; Hoadley-Clausen, Rachel; Dillon-Owens, Cody; Peterman, Amy H.; Sadler, Richard C.

doi:10.1080/07448481.2021.1970564

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“…There are fewer investigations of internalizing symptoms and disorders; however, these phenotypes do not appear to escape untouched. Higher household chaos predicts negative infant temperament (Bridgett, Burt, Laake, & Oddi, 2013), as well as internalizing symptoms in childhood and adolescence (Deater-Deckard et al, 2019;Richie et al, 2021;Wilhoit et al, 2021). Finally, youth residing in chaotic home environments exhibit poorer nonverbal cognitive development (Dumas et al, 2005;Pike, Iervolino, Eley, Price, & Plomin, 2006), compromised language development (Lecheile, Spinrad, Xu, Lopez, & Eisenberg, 2020), and lag behind their peers in academic achievement and performance (Berry et al, 2016;Shamama-tus-Sabah et al, 2011).…”

Section: Household Chaosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Annual Research Review: The power of predictability – patterns of signals in early life shape neurodevelopment and mental health trajectories

Davis,

Glynn

2024

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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The global burden of early life adversity (ELA) is profound. The World Health Organization has estimated that ELA accounts for almost 30% of all psychiatric cases. Yet, our ability to identify which individuals exposed to ELA will develop mental illness remains poor and there is a critical need to identify underlying pathways and mechanisms. This review proposes unpredictability as an understudied aspect of ELA that is tractable and presents a conceptual model that includes biologically plausible mechanistic pathways by which unpredictability impacts the developing brain. The model is supported by a synthesis of published and new data illustrating the significant impacts of patterns of signals on child development. We begin with an overview of the existing unpredictability literature, which has focused primarily on longer patterns of unpredictability (e.g. years, months, and days). We then describe our work testing the impact of patterns of parental signals on a moment‐to‐moment timescale, providing evidence that patterns of these signals during sensitive windows of development influence neurocircuit formation across species and thus may be an evolutionarily conserved process that shapes the developing brain. Next, attention is drawn to emerging themes which provide a framework for future directions of research including the evaluation of functions, such as effortful control, that may be particularly vulnerable to unpredictability, sensitive periods, sex differences, cross‐cultural investigations, addressing causality, and unpredictability as a pathway by which other forms of ELA impact development. Finally, we provide suggestions for prevention and intervention, including the introduction of a screening instrument for the identification of children exposed to unpredictable experiences.

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Section: Household Chaosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Annual Research Review: The power of predictability – patterns of signals in early life shape neurodevelopment and mental health trajectories

Davis,

Glynn

2024

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…Unpredictability in domains such as housing, childcare, finances, parent employment, and parent mental health is linked to greater internalizing problems, poorer social adjustment, and poorer neurodevelopment related to social functioning (e.g., Bratsch-Hines et al, 2015;DeCandia et al, 2022;Pilarz & Hill, 2014;Schneider & Harknett, 2022). Greater household chaos is associated with more negative infant temperament (Bridgett et al, 2013) and greater child and adolescent internalizing symptoms (Deater-Deckard et al, 2019;Richie et al, 2023;Wilhoit et al, 2021). Similarly, fewer family routines are associated with poorer child emotion regulation (Barton et al, 2019;Zajicek-Farber et al, 2012).…”

Section: Social and Emotional Functioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Childhood unpredictability research within the developmental psychopathology framework: Advances, implications, and future directions

Doom,

Han,

Rivera

et al. 2024

Dev Psychopathol

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Greater unpredictability in childhood from the level of the caregiver-child dyad to broader family, home, or environmental instability is consistently associated with disruptions in cognitive, socioemotional, behavioral, and biological development in humans. These findings are bolstered by experimental research in non-human animal models suggesting that early life unpredictability is an important environmental signal to the developing organism that shapes neurodevelopment and behavior. Research on childhood unpredictability has surged in the past several years, guided in part by theoretical grounding from the developmental psychopathology framework (shaped largely by Dr. Dante Cicchetti’s innovative work). The current review focuses on future directions for unpredictability research, including probing intergenerational effects, the role of predictability in resilience, cultural and contextual considerations, and novel developmental outcomes that should be tested in relation to childhood unpredictability. We urge the integration of multidisciplinary perspectives and collaborations into future research on unpredictability. We also provide ideas for translating this research to real-world practice and policy and encourage high-quality research testing whether incorporating predictability into interventions and policy improves developmental outcomes, which would support further dissemination of these findings.

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Family functioning, contributions to college expenses, access to mentors, and college student’s health and flourishing: Examining moderation by family structure

Russell

Su‐Russell

2022

Journal of American College Health

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Neighborhood disadvantage, household chaos, and personal stressors: exploring early-life contextual factors and current mental health symptoms in college students

Cited by 3 publications

References 57 publications

Annual Research Review: The power of predictability – patterns of signals in early life shape neurodevelopment and mental health trajectories

Annual Research Review: The power of predictability – patterns of signals in early life shape neurodevelopment and mental health trajectories

Childhood unpredictability research within the developmental psychopathology framework: Advances, implications, and future directions

Family functioning, contributions to college expenses, access to mentors, and college student’s health and flourishing: Examining moderation by family structure

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