Using Avoidant Emotion-Focused Coping and being a Woman with Adverse Childhood Experiences as the Worst-Case Scenario for Internalising Problems.

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Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma Pub Date : 2025-02-08 eCollection Date: 2025-06-01 DOI:10.1007/s40653-025-00688-z

Aitana Gomis-Pomares, Laura Lacomba-Trejo, Lidón Villanueva

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Abstract

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) bring an increased risk for the development of internalising outcomes. Nevertheless, how the cumulative effect of ACEs combines with other variables, such as coping strategies, to give rise to internalising problems has been little studied so far. Therefore, the current study investigates which specific combinations of total ACEs, coping strategies, and sociodemographic variables influence depression, anxiety, and stress. To this end, 420 young Spanish adults (63% women) 18-20 years old (mean age = 18.92; SD = 0.77) participated in the study. Participants answered sociodemographic questions and completed the ACEs Questionnaire, the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale, and the Brief Coping Scale. Both fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and regression models suggested that the cumulative impact of ACEs, in combination with avoidant emotion-focused coping, may conduce internalising problems in women. These findings could serve as a basis for interventions aimed at the primary screening of populations more sensitive to the development of internalising problems as well as in the re-education of adaptive coping strategies in those who have suffered ACEs, in order to avoid more severe long-term problems.

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以回避型情绪为中心的应对方式和童年不良经历的女性作为内化问题的最坏情况。

不良童年经历（ace）增加了内化结果发展的风险。然而，ace的累积效应是如何与其他变量（如应对策略）结合起来导致内化问题的，迄今为止还很少有人研究。因此，本研究调查了总ace、应对策略和社会人口变量的哪些特定组合会影响抑郁、焦虑和压力。为此，420名18-20岁的西班牙年轻人（63%为女性）(平均年龄= 18.92；SD = 0.77)参与研究。参与者回答了社会人口学问题，并完成了ace问卷、抑郁、焦虑和压力量表以及简短应对量表。模糊集定性比较分析和回归模型均表明，不良经历的累积影响与回避型情绪集中应对相结合，可能导致女性的内化问题。这些发现可以作为干预措施的基础，针对对内化问题发展更敏感的人群进行初步筛查，以及对遭受ace的人进行适应性应对策略的再教育，以避免更严重的长期问题。

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期刊介绍： Underpinned by a biopsychosocial approach, the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma presents original research and prevention and treatment strategies for understanding and dealing with symptoms and disorders related to the psychological effects of trauma experienced by children and adolescents during childhood and where the impact of these experiences continues into adulthood. The journal also examines intervention models directed toward the individual, family, and community, new theoretical models and approaches, and public policy proposals and innovations. In addition, the journal promotes rigorous investigation and debate on the human capacity for agency, resilience and longer-term healing in the face of child and adolescent trauma. With a multidisciplinary approach that draws input from the psychological, medical, social work, sociological, public health, legal and education fields, the journal features research, intervention approaches and evidence-based programs, theoretical articles, specific review articles, brief reports and case studies, and commentaries on current and/or controversial topics. The journal also encourages submissions from less heard voices, for example in terms of geography, minority status or service user perspectives. Among the topics examined in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma: The effects of childhood maltreatment Loss, natural disasters, and political conflict Exposure to or victimization from family or community violence Racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation or class discrimination Physical injury, diseases, and painful or debilitating medical treatments The impact of poverty, social deprivation and inequality Barriers and facilitators on pathways to recovery The Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma is an important resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and academics whose work is centered on children exposed to traumatic events and adults exposed to traumatic events as children.