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Adverse childhood experiences, daily worries, and positive thoughts: A daily diary multi-wave study
Reout Arbel1, Hannah L Schacter2, Kelly F M Kazmierski2
1Department of Counseling and Human Development, University of Haifa, Israel.
Objective:
To examine adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as a prospective predictor of the day-to-day associations between worries and positive thinking among late adolescents.
Method:
Cumulative ACEs were measured from parent and youth reports between the ages of 9.9 and 18.1. Late adolescents (N = 103) reported daily worries and positive thoughts across ten days.
Results:
Adverse childhood experiences predicted higher and more variable levels of day-to-day worry. Increases in positive thinking on one day predicted less next-day worry for adolescents with low, but not high, ACE scores.
Conclusions:
Daily worry during late adolescence may be an important consequence of earlier exposure to ACEs. Early interventions focused on worry reduction and improved emotion regulation might mitigate worry among high-ACE youth.
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