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Bidirectional relationships between childhood adversities and psychosocial outcomes: A cross-lagged panel study from childhood to adolescence

Hales, George K.
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Debowska, Agata
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Rowe, Richard
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Boduszek, Daniel
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Levita, Liat
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University of Leicester; University of Chester; SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities; University of Sheffield; University of Huddersfield; University of Sussex
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2024-09-19
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Childhood adversities have been linked to psychosocial outcomes, but it remains uncertain whether subtypes of adversity exert different effects on outcomes. Research is also needed to explore the dynamic interplay between adversity and psychosocial outcomes from childhood to mid-adolescence. This study aimed to investigate these relationships and their role in shaping adolescent wellbeing. Data were extracted from three timepoints of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey when participants ( = 646) were aged 10-15. Cross-lagged panel models were used to explore the relationship between cumulative adversities, and separately non-household (i.e., bullying victimization and adverse neighborhood) and household (i.e., sibling victimization, quarrelsome relationship with parents, financial struggles, and maternal psychological distress) adversities, and psychosocial outcomes (i.e., internalizing and externalizing problems, delinquency, and life satisfaction). Our results revealed that heightened cumulative adversity predicted psychosocial outcomes from childhood to mid-adolescence. Increased levels of household adversity predicted psychosocial outcomes throughout early to mid-adolescence, while non-household adversity only predicted psychosocial outcomes in early adolescence. Furthermore, worse psychosocial outcomes predicted higher levels of adversities during adolescence, highlighting bidirectionality between adversity and psychosocial outcomes. These findings underscore the varying impacts of adversity subtypes and the mutually reinforcing effects of adversities and psychosocial functioning from childhood to mid-adolescence.
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Hales, G. K., Debowska, A., Rowe, R., Boduszek, D., & Levita, L. (2025). Bidirectional relationships between childhood adversities and psychosocial outcomes: A cross-lagged panel study from childhood to adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 37(4), 1919-1929. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001470
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Cambridge University Press
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Development and Psychopathology
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/629060
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10.1017/S0954579424001470
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press
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0954-5794
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1469-2198
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