The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model

CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that childhood trauma might impair adolescents' attentional control and then increase their externalizing problems. The influence of childhood trauma on attentional control is more serious among adolescents with lower SPS levels. Therefore, decreasing and preventing childhood trauma and building a warm nurturing environment might be beneficial to improving adolescents' attentional control ability and then reduce their externalizing problems.PMID:38266582 | DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106646
Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - Category: Child Development Authors: Source Type: research