Blanchflower, David G;
Bryson, Alex;
(2024)
The adult consequences on wellbeing of abuse and neglect in childhood.
International Journal of Wellbeing
, 14
(3)
pp. 1-28.
10.5502/ijw.v13i3.3513.
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Abstract
Using four cross-sectional data files for the United States and Europe we show that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have a substantial and significant apparent impact on subjective wellbeing in adulthood. These ACEs – which include death of a parent, parental separation or divorce, household financial difficulties, the prolonged absence of a parent, quarreling between parents, parental unemployment, sexual assault, experiencing long-term health problems, being bullied at school, and being beaten or punched as a child – are associated with significantly lower subjective wellbeing in adulthood. This association is apparent across fifty different subjective wellbeing measures. These include sixteen positive affect measures such as happiness, life satisfaction and domain-specific life satisfaction, and twenty-three negative affect measures such as the GHQ6, loneliness, and feeling down, depressed and tired. In addition, we find ACEs affect perceptions of the area one lives in as an adult including perceptions of drugs, violence and vandalism.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The adult consequences on wellbeing of abuse and neglect in childhood |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5502/ijw.v13i3.3513 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v13i3.3513 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ |
| Keywords: | Adverse childhood experiences; subjective wellbeing; abuse; neglect |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200808 |
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