Naslov
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescents’ Psychosocial Problems in Different Economic Contexts

Autori
Ajduković, Marina ; Sušac, Nika ; Rezo, Ines

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Promoting Societal Change: Integrating Traumatic Stress Research, Practice and Policy for Vulnerable Populations - Session Abstract Book / - , 2018, 148-149

Skup
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 34th Annual Meeting: Promoting Societal Change: Integrating Traumatic Stress Research, Practice and Policy for Vulnerable Populations

Mjesto i datum
Sjedinjene Američke Države, 08.11.2018. - 10.11.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Adverse Childhood Experiences ; economic hardship ; internalizing problems ; externalizing problems

Sažetak
The long-term economic crisis has changed living conditions of many families in Croatia, which could be an additional risk for youth psychosocial development. The study explored the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and their relationship with internalizing and externalizing problems of adolescents living in different economic contexts. Extreme groups approach was used and two subsamples were drawn from a larger sample of 1057 Croatian adolescents based on participants’ assessment on family financial problems. The participants were highschool students (Mage=16.29, SDage=0.540), 215 in the economic hardship group and 222 in the non-economic hardship group. Instruments included a measure of ACE adapted for this study, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, Youth Self-Reported Delinquency and Risk Behaviors Questionnaire. All ACEs, except the death of a close family member, were more prevalent in the economic hardship group. Participants were further categorized in three groups based on the number of ACEs and two-way ANOVAs were performed with internalizing and externalizing problems as dependent variables. Economic hardship proved to be an additional risk for internalizing problems in adolescence, while the only significant difference in externalizing problems was between participants experiencing different number of ACEs. The study was funded by Croatian Science Foundation.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Socijalne djelatnosti

Napomena
Međunarodna konferencija

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