Background School connectedness reflects the quality of students' engagement with peers,
teachers, and learning in the school environment. It has attracted attention from both the …

Different forms of maltreatment are thought to incur a cumulative and non-specific toll on
mental health. However, few large-scale studies draw on psychiatric diagnoses manifesting …

This systematic review examined the extent of evidence that meaningfully examines
racial/ethnic differences in the association between childhood adversity and psychological …

Background Extant research and theory posit that emotional abuse and emotional neglect-
exposure is uniquely harmful during adolescence. Yet, these findings are mostly based on …

Background Depressive symptoms are the most common mental disorder among
adolescents, and its prevalence has been increasing in recent years. Although childhood …

Background Emotional abuse has been identified as a risk factor for children's depressive
symptoms. However, the specific psychological mechanisms mediating this relation are not …

Background Students who experience maltreatment tend to underperform academically
relative to their peers, requiring an understanding of academically-related mechanisms that …

Objective The association between childhood maltreatment (CM) and clinically diagnosed
depressive disorders (DD) in children and adolescents remains inconclusive, in large part …

Background The adverse effects of childhood maltreatment on the mental health of
individuals have received increasing attention. However, it is unclear whether the effects of …

Child maltreatment gives rise to atypical patterns of social functioning with peers which
might be particularly pronounced in early adolescence when peer influence typically peaks …