Accumulation, Timing, and Duration of Early Childhood Adversity and Behavior Problems at Age 9.

ABSTRACT: We utilized a life course framework to examine associations between the accumulation, timing, and duration of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) across early childhood (ages 1-5 years) and internalizing and externalizing behavior problems at age 9. The sample included 1,789 children from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a birth cohort study of children born between 1998 and 2000. Primary caregivers reported on seven ACEs at child ages 1, 3, 5, and 9. We created 2 summary measures of early childhood ACEs to capture (a) accumulation and (b) timing and duration. We derived indicators of caregiver-reported internalizing and externalizing problems at ages 5 and 9. Logistic regression was used to estimate associations between early childhood ACEs and behavior problems at age 9,

SUBMITTER: Schroeder A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6551296 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature