The impact of adverse childhood experiences and recent life events on anxiety and quality of life in university students

Davies, Emma; Read, John; Shevlin, Mark

doi:10.1007/s10734-021-00774-9

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“…Child maltreatment is an important risk factor for onset and course of mental disorders (L. P. Chen et al, 2010;Lewis et al, 2019;McLaughlin et al, 2012) as well as lower life satisfaction and health-related quality of life during adolescence and adulthood (Cohrdes & Mauz, 2020;Davies, Read, & Shevlin, 2021;Weber, Jud, & Landolt, 2016;Witt, Sachser, Plener, Brähler, & Fegert, 2019). Unsurprisingly, experiencing more types of child maltreatment was additionally associated with lower life satisfaction and health-related quality of life but only emotional abuse further decreased life satisfaction when controlling for other types of child maltreatment in two studies (Cohrdes & Mauz, 2020;Witt et al, 2019).…”

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Pathways between child maltreatment, psychological symptoms, and life satisfaction: a network analysis in adolescent inpatients

Kolar¹,

Monteleone²,

Cascino³

et al. 2022

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Background: Child maltreatment is a common risk factor for mental disorders and decreased life satisfaction during adolescence. Using network analysis, we investigated whether child maltreatment would connect to life satisfaction both directly and through psychological symptoms, whether these relations would change from admission to discharge after treatment, and which types of maltreatment, symptoms and facets of life satisfaction would be most influential in a transdiagnostic adolescent inpatient sample.Methods: N = 896 adolescents completed questionnaires on child maltreatment experiences, current psychopathology and subjective life satisfaction at admission and discharge (n = 765). Main diagnoses were affective (n = 322), eating (n = 447), obsessive–compulsive (n = 70) and anxiety disorders (n = 57). Network models of child maltreatment, psychopathology and life satisfaction nodes were estimated at admission and discharge and compared using network comparison tests. Bridge nodes and shortest paths from child maltreatment to life satisfaction were analyzed.Results: Network models were stable with no significant differences between admission and discharge. Strongest nodes of each cluster were “emotional abuse” (child maltreatment), “worthlessness”, “thinking about dying” and “feeling lonely” (all psychopathology) and “satisfied with life” (life satisfaction) at both admission and discharge. All shortest pathways from child maltreatment to life satisfaction were directly through “emotional neglect” and “excellent life conditions”, with an indirect path from “sexual abuse” through “distrust”.Conclusions: Child maltreatment is directly connected to life satisfaction in adolescents with severe mental disorders. Emotional abuse and neglect were especially important in linking child maltreatment to life satisfaction and psychopathology.

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confidence: 92%

Pathways between child maltreatment, psychological symptoms, and life satisfaction: a network analysis in adolescent inpatients

Kolar¹,

Monteleone²,

Cascino³

et al. 2022

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“…The third implication is creating an adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) intake with PA recommendations. ACEs are traumatic or stressful events such as abuse, neglect, household dysfunction and other forms of adversity, such as parental divorce and substance abuse (Davies et al , 2021). Impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic caused additional stressors and challenges for students that increased their risk of experiencing ACEs.…”

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Predictive algorithms and racial bias: a qualitative descriptive study on the perceptions of algorithm accuracy in higher education

von Winckelmann

2023

ILS

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Purpose This study aims to explore the perception of algorithm accuracy among data professionals in higher education. Design/methodology/approach Social justice theory guided the qualitative descriptive study and emphasized four principles: access, participation, equity and human rights. Data collection included eight online open-ended questionnaires and six semi-structured interviews. Participants included higher education professionals who have worked with predictive algorithm (PA) recommendations programmed with student data. Findings Participants are aware of systemic and racial bias in their PA inputs and outputs and acknowledge their responsibility to ethically use PA recommendations with students in historically underrepresented groups (HUGs). For some participants, examining these topics through the lens of social justice was a new experience, which caused them to look at PAs in new ways. Research limitations/implications Small sample size is a limitation of the study. Implications for practice include increased stakeholder training, creating an ethical data strategy that protects students, incorporating adverse childhood experiences data with algorithm recommendations, and applying a modified critical race theory framework to algorithm outputs. Originality/value The study explored the perception of algorithm accuracy among data professionals in higher education. Examining this topic through a social justice lens contributes to limited research in the field. It also presents implications for addressing racial bias when using PAs with students in HUGs.

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“…In particular, the relationship between CM and especially subjective QOL (namely, life satisfaction) in individuals with EDs has been neglected. This is a relevant literature gap in the light of evidence that CM is a determinant of low life satisfaction in healthy adolescents (Davies et al., 2022; Weber et al., 2016). Therefore, this study assessed in adolescents with EDs before and after treatment the relationship between different types of CM and life satisfaction and explored whether and which connections persist once symptoms improved.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The shortest pathways analyses were conducted to detect the shortest routes, that is the minimum number of steps needed to go from one node to the other in the network, between CM and life satisfaction variables. In the light of the impact of eating symptoms' severity on QOL (Bamford & Sly, 2010) and considering the strong relationship between CM and adolescent's QOL (Davies et al., 2022; Weber et al., 2016), we hypothesised that both direct and indirect pathways including eating symptoms occurred between CM and life satisfaction.…”

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Pathways between childhood maltreatment and life satisfaction in adolescents with eating disorders: A network analysis

Monteleone

Cascino

Meule

et al. 2023

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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Objective: This study explored the association between Childhood maltreatment (CM) experiences and life satisfaction in adolescents with eating disorders (EDs).Methods: Adolescent inpatients with EDs completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, the Brief Symptom Inventory and the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 at admission (n = 361) and discharge (n = 354). A network analysis was conducted to identify the shortest pathways between different types of CM and life satisfaction at admission and discharge.Results: General psychopathology, life satisfaction, and ED symptoms improved from admission to discharge. At admission, emotional abuse and emotional neglect were included in the pathway between sexual/physical abuse and life satisfaction. Emotional neglect was directly connected with life satisfaction while emotional abuse was connected through feeling disliked by others, feelings of inferiority and worthlessness. At discharge, only the direct negative connection between emotional neglect and perception of excellent conditions in the life persisted. Conclusions: Emotional maltreatment experiences and general psychopathology, but not disordered eating symptoms, are involved in the association between sexual/physical CM and life satisfaction in adolescents with EDs.Emotional neglect may affect life satisfaction regardless of symptoms severity. These findings inform clinicians for assessment and treatment of maltreated adolescents with EDs.

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The impact of adverse childhood experiences and recent life events on anxiety and quality of life in university students

Cited by 19 publications

References 51 publications

Pathways between child maltreatment, psychological symptoms, and life satisfaction: a network analysis in adolescent inpatients

Pathways between child maltreatment, psychological symptoms, and life satisfaction: a network analysis in adolescent inpatients

Predictive algorithms and racial bias: a qualitative descriptive study on the perceptions of algorithm accuracy in higher education

Pathways between childhood maltreatment and life satisfaction in adolescents with eating disorders: A network analysis

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