Effects of childhood adversities on alexithymia features vary between sexes. Results of a prospective population study.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) associate with various mental disorders, including personality features. Our understanding of how ACEs influence alexithymia features in the general population is limited. In a prospective population setting, we studied whether ACEs associate with alexithymia, and the role of sex and emotional symptoms in this association.

Gender differences in the association between adverse childhood experiences and premature mortality: A prospective population study.

Background: Birth cohort studies have shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with all-cause mortality. The effect of ACEs on premature mortality among working-age people is less clear and may differ between the genders.

Objective: In this prospective population study, we investigated the association of ACEs with all-cause mortality in a working-age population.

Effect of childhood adversities on alcohol problems is mainly mediated by depression.

Background And Objectives: We aimed to study how five childhood adversities and trauma (CAT) core domains: emotional abuse (EmoAb), physical abuse (PhyAb), sexual abuse (SexAb), emotional neglect (EmoNeg), physical neglect (PhyNeg), associate with alcohol problems (APs), and whether there are any gender differences in these associations.

Methods: Altogether, 690 adult participants drawn from the general population completed a mailed questionnaire, including the trauma and distress scale, as an indicator of CAT, and questions concerning sociodemographic background, depressive symptoms, and APs.

Results: In univariate analyses, male gender, middle age, divorced/separated marital status and lower education, frequency of use of alcohol, previous treatment for mental problems, as well as depressive symptoms and CAT domain scores were associated with APs.