Different Forms Of Childhood Adversity Tied To Different Psychiatric Problems

Children who experience traumatic and adverse childhood experiences (TRACEs) in early adolescence have poorer mental health and cognitive ability, but the degree of severity differed with the type of TRACE. TRACEs include a variety of events that represent one of eight broad types of adversity: community threat, peer aggression, caregiver maladjustment, chronic pain, discrimination, family conflict, poverty, and interpersonal violence.

Key associations were as follows:

Peer aggression was associated with increases in internalizing and externalizing problems

Community threat and poverty were associated with a decrease in internalizing and externalizing problems

Resource deprivation due to poverty or caregiver maladjustment was associated . . .