49.14 THE ROLE OF ADULT ATTACHMENT STYLE IN MEDIATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND ADULT INTERPERSONAL PROBLEMS

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
pp. S249
Author(s):  
Prerna Moorjani
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Interpersonal Problems ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adult Attachment Style ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
The Relationship

Personal characteristics associated with the effect of childhood trauma on health

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 384-394
Author(s):  
John Muench ◽  
Sheldon Levy ◽  
Rebecca Rdesinski ◽  
Rebekah Schiefer ◽  
Kristin Gilbert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adult Attachment Style ◽  
Care Clinic ◽  
Adverse Childhood

Objective This article will describe a pilot study to explore associations between adult attachment style, resilience, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and adult health. Method A self-report survey was mailed to 180 randomly selected primary care patients and linked to a retrospective chart review. The patients met the following criteria: (1) enrolled for at least the previous year at their primary care clinic, (2) 21 years of age or greater, (3) English as their primary language, and (4) were seen by their provider on selected dates of the study. The survey was made up of three instruments: (1) the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire which consists of 10 questions about the respondent’s adverse experiences during their first 18 years of life; (2) the Relationship Scales Questionnaire which measures adult attachment style; and (3) the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale, a self-report scale that measures individual’s perceptions of their resilience. For each returned questionnaire, we calculated a measure of medical complexity using the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index. Results Of the 180 randomly selected patients from four clinic sites, 84 (46.6%) returned completed questionnaires. We found that Adverse Childhood Experience scores were significantly correlated with health and attachment style and trended toward association with resilience. Conclusion This pilot study revealed expected relationships of the complex associations between Adverse Childhood Experiences, attachment style, and resiliency. Further research with more subjects is warranted in order to continue to explore these relationships.

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.

scholarly journals Origins of Adulthood Personality: The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Fletcher ◽  
Stefanie Schurer
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Important Pathway ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Parental Maltreatment

Abstract We test whether adverse childhood experiences – exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health – are associated with age 30 personality traits. We use rich longitudinal data from a large, representative cohort of young US Americans and exploit the differences across siblings to control for the confounding influences of shared environmental and genetic factors. We find that maltreatment experiences are significantly and robustly associated with neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness to experience, but not with agreeableness and extraversion. High levels of neuroticism are linked to sexual abuse and neglect; low levels of conscientiousness and openness to experience are linked to parental neglect. The estimated associations are significantly reduced in magnitude when controlling for physical or mental health, suggesting that adolescent health could be one important pathway via which maltreatment affects adulthood personality. Maltreatment experiences, in combination with their health effects, explain a significant fraction of the relationship between adulthood conscientiousness and earnings or human capital. Our findings provide a possible explanation for why personality traits are important predictors of adulthood labor market outcomes.

scholarly journals Adverse Childhood Experiences and Empathy: The Role of Interparental Conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Ana V. Antunes ◽  
Patrícia Oliveira ◽  
Jorge Cardoso ◽  
Telma C. Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Interparental Conflict ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Interparental Violence ◽  
Childhood Victimization ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
The Relationship

The literature shows that adverse life experiences may harm individuals. The main objectives of this research were to study the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and empathy in adulthood and analyse differences between victims and nonvictims of interparental conflict. Our research evidenced that adverse childhood experiences affect individuals’ empathy in adulthood, and victims of interparental violence experienced other childhood victimization.

The Influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence Among Black Men: The Moderating Role of Alcohol Use

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110279
Author(s):  
Kerry A. Lee ◽  
Charlotte Lyn Bright ◽  
Paul Sacco ◽  
Melissa E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Ipv Perpetration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

This study examined the moderating role of alcohol use on the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among Black men in the United States. We conducted bivariate and logistic regression analyses using data from Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). Bivariate results revealed significant relationships between eight of the 10 ACE factors physical neglect; emotional, physical and sexual abuse; witnessing a mother being abused; and having a parent guardian with an alcohol and drug problem and who was incarcerated and IPV perpetration. Similarly, examination of the relationship between ACEs and alcohol use in adulthood also revealed significant associations, with the exception of exposure to emotional neglect, emotional and sexual abuse, and witnessing a mother being abused. Findings from the logistic regression models revealed that alcohol use significantly moderated the relationship between ACEs and IPV perpetration, but only for men exposed to 1, 2, and ≥4 adversities in childhood. However, alcohol use appeared to exacerbate the relationship between ACEs and IPV perpetration for men without childhood adversity. Implications for practice, policy, and areas for further research are discussed.

scholarly journals Configurations of Adult Attachment, Indicators of Mental Health and Adverse Childhood Experiences in Women: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 13385
Author(s):  
María Dolores Méndez-Méndez ◽  
Yolanda Fontanil ◽  
Yolanda Martín-Higarza ◽  
Natalia Fernández-Álvarez ◽  
Esteban Ezama
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, attachment and adult mental health has been pointed out in a large amount of studies. In a sample of 339 women receiving support from mental health and social services, this research analyzed the association between three adult attachment variables (fear of rejection or abandonment—FRA; desire for closeness—DC; preference for independence—PI) and four mental health indicators. After dichotomizing these variables, we constructed eight configurations of attachment and examined their association with mental health indicators. BAB people (those below the median in FRA, above in DC and below in PI) obtained the most favorable scores in mental health, whereas the ABA configuration (above the median in FRA, below in DC and above in PI) was the least favorable. The association between attachment configurations and mental health indicators was different to what might be expected, aggregating the effects of individual attachment variables. When analyzing the relationship between configurations and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), women with an ABA configuration reported the highest number of ACEs and eight ACE types had a higher-than-expected contingency coefficient. In conclusion, these findings suggest that certain adult attachment configurations are associated with a greater number of ACEs and poorer mental health indicators in adult women.

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