Purpose: Children exposed to adversity (eg, chronic poverty, traumatic events, and
maltreatment) are at increased risk for performing below age expectations on norm …

Background Children exposed to adversity are at increased risk for underachievement in
reading; however, how early that risk appears and the mechanisms underlying that risk are …

Background Supportive parenting programs can promote parent-child interactions and
children's development. However, families experiencing vulnerability (eg, low …

Objective: Past research examining the relation between adversity and working memory
(WM) has found mixed results and has been limited by methodological issues (eg, cross …

Background Childhood adversity is linked with unhealthy eating behaviours and obesity, but
the mechanisms underlying this association are unclear, specifically the transgenerational …

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of many individuals. While
emerging evidence has begun to document health (eg, infection) and financial (eg, job loss) …

Research that seeks to better understand the connection between potentially traumatic
events (PTEs) and children's well-being continues to develop from inadequate and …

Assessment practices for measuring adverse life events (ALEs) are often characterized by
considerable variability, which is associated with inconsistency and reproducibility issues …

Systemic inflammation links exposure to early childhood adversity to later disease. The
associations among adversity and disease risk might in part operate through poor oral …

Hostile attribution bias (HAB), or the tendency to interpret others' intent as hostile, has been
linked to a variety of maladaptive outcomes including aggression and harsh parenting …