Life course research has shown that childhood stressors
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The gap
Although life course research has shown that childhood stressors can exert long-term effects into older adulthood, few studies have explored alternative ways of measuring stressors across childhood and adulthood, or tested their invariance
Evidence profile
Stated in the abstract section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2009 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 138 times in total.
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Established — well-defined area with open sub-problems.
Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Lifetime adversity predicts depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairment in a nationally representative sample of older adults in the United States (2024) · Journal of Clinical Psychology · cited 11× · doi
OBJECTIVE: Although life stress and adversity are well-known risk factors for mental health problems and cognitive impairment among older adults, limited research has comprehensively examined the impact of both childhood and adulthood adversity on psychiatric and cognitive impairment symptoms over a prolonged period.
generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5Keywords: adversity cognitive impairment objective life stress well known risk factors mental health problems among older - Targeted Rejection Predicts Hastened Onset of Major Depression (2009) · Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology · cited 127× · doi
Although severe life stress frequently precipitates the onset of major depression, little is known about the basic nature of stressors in this general category of adversity and how exposure to different life events might be related to clinical aspects of the disorder.
generalstated in abstractevidence 4/5Keywords: life severe stress frequently precipitates onset major depression little known basic nature stressors general category - The impact of childhood and adulthood stressors on later-life cognitive function: evaluating birth cohort differences (2026) · Longitudinal and Life Course Studies · doi
Although life course research has shown that childhood stressors can exert long-term effects into older adulthood, few studies have explored alternative ways of measuring stressors across childhood and adulthood, or tested their invariance across birth cohorts.
generalstated in abstractevidence 4/5Keywords: childhood stressors adulthood across life course exert long term effects older explored alternative ways measuring
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