Journal article
Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and community environments
Children and youth services review, Vol.164, p.107859
09/2024
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107859
Abstract
•Using the 2020 NSCH data, we found four classes of children with adverse childhood experiences, that is, broken family, multiple low-risk, multiple high-risk, and alcohol/drug problem.•We found significant differences in the quality of supportive neighborhoods and the number of positive and adverse community amenities across children categorized into five classes, that is, four classes of ACEs and no ACE Class.•Study findings, in part, empirically confirmed the association between patterns of ACEs and (adverse) community environments.
This study examined patterns of adverse childhood experience and its association with community environments. Using the 2020 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) data, 30,056 children who are 6–17 years of age were our samples for the investigation. Among them, 14,026 children with at least one Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) were profiled through latent cluster analysis. We found four classes of ACEs: separation/divorce, multiple low-risk, multiple high-risk, and alcohol/drug problem. Moreover, controlling for socio-demographic variables (i.e., race/ethnicity, the highest education level of primary caregiver in a household), we found significant differences in the quality of supportive neighborhoods and the number of positive and adverse community amenities across children categorized into four classes of ACEs and no ACE class (i.e., children without ACEs, n = 16,030). Implications for research on ACEs and their association with the community environment are discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and community environments
- Creators
- Hye Yeon Lee - Georgia Institute of TechnologyIsak Kim - Department of Counseling, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Children and youth services review, Vol.164, p.107859
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107859
- ISSN
- 0190-7409
- eISSN
- 1873-7765
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2024
- Academic Unit
- Counselor Education; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984949510402771
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