The Mediating Role of Alexithymia in the Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Postdeployment Mental Health in Canadian Armed Forces Personnel

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 1029-1038
Author(s):  
Heather J. McCuaig Edge ◽  
Jennifer E. C. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Canadian Armed Forces ◽  
Adverse Childhood

scholarly journals The relation between adverse childhood experiences and moral injury in the Canadian Armed Forces

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1546084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Battaglia ◽  
Alina Protopopescu ◽  
Jenna E. Boyd ◽  
Chantelle Lloyd ◽  
Rakesh Jetly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Moral Injury ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Canadian Armed Forces ◽  
Adverse Childhood

scholarly journals Adverse childhood experiences and adult mood problems: evidence from a five-decade prospective birth cohort

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (14) ◽  
pp. 2444-2451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Selous ◽  
Michelle Kelly-Irving ◽  
Barbara Maughan ◽  
Olga Eyre ◽  
Frances Rice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Mental Health Service Use ◽  
Family Adversity ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Teacher Reports ◽  
Family Mental Health

AbstractBackgroundRetrospectively recalled adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with adult mood problems, but evidence from prospective population cohorts is limited. The aims of this study were to test links between prospectively ascertained ACEs and adult mood problems up to age 50, to examine the role of child mental health in accounting for observed associations, and to test gender differences in associations.MethodsThe National Child Development Study is a UK population cohort of children born in 1958. ACEs were defined using parent or teacher reports of family adversity (parental separation, child taken into care, parental neglect, family mental health service use, alcoholism and criminality) at ages 7–16. Children with no known (n = 9168), single (n = 2488) and multiple (n = 897) ACEs were identified in childhood. Adult mood problems were assessed using the Malaise inventory at ages 23, 33, 42 and 50 years. Associations were examined separately for males and females.ResultsExperiencing single or multiple ACEs was associated with increased rates of adult mood problems after adjustment for childhood psychopathology and confounders at birth [2+ v. 0 ACEs – men: age 23: odds ratio (OR) 2.36 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.7–3.3); age 33: OR 2.40 (1.7–3.4); age 42: OR 1.85 (1.4–2.4); age 50: OR 2.63 (2.0–3.5); women: age 23: OR 2.00 (95% CI 1.5–2.6); age 33: OR 1.81 (1.3–2.5); age 42: OR 1.59 (1.2–2.1); age 50: OR 1.32 (1.0–1.7)].ConclusionsChildren exposed to ACEs are at elevated risk for adult mood problems and a priority for early prevention irrespective of the presence of psychopathology in childhood.

scholarly journals Childhood Emotional Abuse and Cyberbullying Perpetration: The Role of Dark Personality Traits

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051988993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kagan Kircaburun ◽  
Peter Jonason ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths ◽  
Engin Aslanargun ◽  
Emrah Emirtekin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Childhood Emotional Abuse ◽  
The Relationship

Dark personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, spitefulness, and sadism) are associated with adverse childhood experiences and deviant online behaviors. However, their mediating role between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying has never previously been investigated. We examined direct and indirect associations of childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying via dark personality traits among 772 participants. Men were better characterized by dark personality traits and were more likely to engage in cyberbullying than women, and there were no sex differences in childhood emotional abuse. Collectively, dark traits fully mediated the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying in men, with partial mediation in the total sample and women. More specifically, Machiavellianism and spitefulness were mediators in both samples, sadism was a mediator in men and the total sample, and psychopathy was a mediator in the total sample and women. The dark personality traits can account for the association between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying, especially among men.

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