Adverse Childhood Experiences, Intimate Partner Violence Victimization, and Self-Perceived Health and Depression among College Students

Seon, Jisuk; Cho, Hyunkag; Choi, Ga-Young; Son, Esther; Allen, Jennifer; Nelson, Abbie; Kwon, Ilan

doi:10.1007/s10896-021-00286-1

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“…Similarly, many risk factors both preceding and during the COVID-19 pandemic are interpersonal in nature. Social stressors both from the participant's past (e.g., and during their experiences in quarantine (e.g., domestic violence) [51] are themselves likely risk factors for loneliness, and mood disorder [52]. Future studies may further examine the role of interpersonal factors in well-being at the onset of the pandemic [47].…”

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Mood symptoms predict COVID-19 pandemic distress but not vice versa: An 18-month longitudinal study

Katz

Yovel

2022

PLoS ONE

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had medical, economic and behavioral implications on a global scale, with research emerging to indicate that it negatively impacted the population’s mental health as well. The current study utilizes longitudinal data to assess whether the pandemic led to an increase in depression and anxiety across participants or whether a diathesis-stress model would be more appropriate. An international group of 218 participants completed measures of depression, anxiety, rumination and distress intolerance at two baselines six months apart as well as during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic exactly 12 months later. Contrary to expectations, depression, rumination, and distress intolerance were at equivalent levels during the pandemic as they were at baseline. Anxiety was reduced by a trivial degree (d = .10). Furthermore, a comparison of quantitative explanatory models indicated that symptom severity and pandemic-related environmental stressors predicted pandemic-related distress. Pandemic-related distress did not predict symptom severity. These findings underscore the necessity of longitudinal designs and diathesis-stress models in the study of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. They also emphasize that individuals with higher rates of baseline psychopathology are as particularly at risk for higher levels of distress in response to disaster-related stressors.

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Mood symptoms predict COVID-19 pandemic distress but not vice versa: An 18-month longitudinal study

Katz

Yovel

2022

PLoS ONE

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“…A study of college students showed that childhood exposure to domestic violence was significantly positively associated with adulthood physical assault victimization, but that cumulative ACEs did not predict any type of IPV victimization in adulthood (Nikulina et al, 2017 ). Using a sample of college students, Seon et al ( 2021 ) found that ACEs and IPV are positively associated with poorer perceived physical and mental health and higher levels of depression and that the ACEs’ influence on physical and mental health was explained partially through IPV victimization. With the relationship between poor health outcomes ACEs and IPV, it is imperative that those that experience both receive support, so these effects do not exacerbate over time.…”

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Intimate Partner Violence and Openness to Online Counseling Among College Students

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent and has devastating consequences for college students. Online counseling (OC) may be a way to decrease barriers to help. This study seeks to determine openness to OC compared to face-to-face counseling (F2F) by examining: (1) How openness to OC varies depending on college students’ personal and IPV characteristics and (2) How these characteristics vary compared to college non-IPV survivors. Two linear regressions were conducted using a sample from a cross sectional survey. First with the entire sample of college students ( N = 1,518) to examine characteristics of those more open to OC and second with only those that identified as experiencing IPV ( n = 1,211). The results demonstrated that IPV survivors are less open to OC than to F2F counseling ( b = -.23, p < .01). For the model with all college students, those who were significantly more open to OC were female ( b = -.39, p < .001), identified as LGBT ( b = .23, p < .05), or Asian/Pacific Islander (API) ( b = .26, p < .05), and had a physical health issue ( b = -.19, p < .05). For the model that only analyzed IPV survivors, the same characteristics were shown to be significantly related to openness to OC. More research is needed to explore why IPV survivors are less open to OC compared to F2F counseling. Exploring why characteristics of female, LGBT, and physical health issues lead to openness to OC could help understand what barriers need to be addressed for wider use.

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“…While there is limited previous research on pathways leading from ACEs to poor physical health, studies have established a link between ACEs and many social and behavioral experiences that may impact health in adulthood. Childhood adversity has been consistently and significantly associated with an increase in intimate partner violence [ 17 , 18 ], social isolation [ 19 ], substance use [ 20 , 21 , 22 ], and unemployment [ 23 , 24 ]. Existing studies that test these social and behavioral experiences as mediators often focus on mental health or social functioning-related outcomes.…”

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“…Existing studies that test these social and behavioral experiences as mediators often focus on mental health or social functioning-related outcomes. In particular, intimate partner violence and social isolation have been shown to increase the risk for poor mental health, including depression and suicidality [ 18 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ]. Substance use has mediating effects on suicidality [ 31 ] as well as legal-related outcomes [ 32 , 33 ].…”

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“…Community and social support may also be part of the pathway by serving as protective factors against lower physical health quality [ 36 , 37 ]. A study by Seon et al on intimate partner violence also showed partial mediation with physical health in college students [ 18 ]. However, there remain gaps in the literature on mediation by life-course experiences with a focus on adult physical health.…”

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Social and Behavioral Pathways between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poor Adult Physical Health: Mediation by Early Adulthood Experiences in a Low-Income Population

Devine

Cohen-Cline

2022

IJERPH

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Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase the risk of poor health and wellbeing in adulthood. In this study, we tested whether experiences in early adulthood—intimate partner violence (IPV), substance use, social isolation, and work instability—mediate the relationship between ACEs and poor physical health in later adulthood. Using data from a large-scale survey of Medicaid enrollees in the Portland metropolitan area, four separate mediation models were constructed to assess the indirect effects of each early adulthood experience and the proportion of the total effect on physical health accounted for by the pathway. Experiencing four or more ACEs increased the risk of poor adult physical health by 50% (RR 1.50). Considered in separate models, mediation by IPV accounted for 14.4% of the total effect; substance use mediated a similar proportion (14.0%). Social isolation was a less substantial mediator (7.6%). Work instability did not mediate the relationship between ACEs and adult physical health in our population. These findings provide evidence that IPV, substance use, and social isolation in early adulthood are part of the pathway between high ACEs and poor adult physical health. Intervening to prevent negative early adult experiences may mitigate some of the long-term effects of childhood trauma on health.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Intimate Partner Violence Victimization, and Self-Perceived Health and Depression among College Students

Cited by 19 publications

References 59 publications

Mood symptoms predict COVID-19 pandemic distress but not vice versa: An 18-month longitudinal study

Mood symptoms predict COVID-19 pandemic distress but not vice versa: An 18-month longitudinal study

Intimate Partner Violence and Openness to Online Counseling Among College Students

Social and Behavioral Pathways between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poor Adult Physical Health: Mediation by Early Adulthood Experiences in a Low-Income Population

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