These results suggest that particular adverse experiences in childhood do set up specific vulnerabilities to the expression of anxiety versus
dysthymia co-morbidity in adulthood major depression.
Childhood adversity places individuals with major depression at risk for anxiety and
dysthymia co-morbidity.
The goal of the present paper is to broaden this area of research by examining specificity between the type of adversity (e.g. abuse versus neglect / indifference) and the resulting co-morbid disorder (e.g. anxiety versus
dysthymia co-morbidity).