In a cohort of 1,196 children followed to age 29 years, the authors found that risk of psychopathology was more strongly associated with subjective recall of childhood maltreatment histories than...

This systematic review and meta-analysis assesses the agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment.

Despite widespread belief that violence begets violence, methodological problems substantially restrict knowledge of the long-term consequences of childhood victimization. Empirical evidence for this...

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Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs; e.g. abuse, neglect, and parental loss) have been associated with increased risk for later‐life disease and dysfunction using adults’ retrospective...

Both prospective informant-reports and retrospective self-reports may be used to measure childhood maltreatment, though both methods entail potential …

How do adverse childhood experiences get ‘under the skin’ and influence health outcomes through the life-course? Research reviewed here suggests that …

Personal accounts of childhood maltreatment show a stronger association with psychiatric problems compared to legal proof that maltreatment occurred, according to a new study co-written by a…