Sentences with phrase «life adversity increases»

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It is possible that early life adversity and stress lead to persistent increase in levels of IL - 6 and other inflammatory markers in our body, which, in turn, increase the risk of a number of chronic physical and mental illness.»

The new study suggests that slower processing speed may contribute to the development of mental health disorders — possibly by leading to «increased stress and difficulties responding to adversity earlier in life.»

Training programs can provide safe opportunities for administrators to take real - life problems and apply tested principles of resilience to increase competence and confidence that can get the administrator successfully through adversity when it comes.

Evidence linking psychological stress to asthma continues to grow with our increased understanding of the natural history of asthma and the neurobiology underlying stress vulnerability.1 - 3 Stress exposure during infancy and early childhood may exert particularly robust effects on the physiological systems that respond to stress.4 - 6 Evidence from animal and human studies strongly suggests that early life adversity shapes stress neurobiology, 7 resulting in disturbed regulation of endocrine and autonomic processes (eg, hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal [HPA] axis, sympathetic - adrenal - medullary system).

Previous research has reported that a functional polymorphism in the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene promoter can moderate the association between early life adversity and increased risk for violence and antisocial behavior.

For example, longitudinal studies show that growing up in poverty increases lifelong risk for various negative life events and negative health outcomes.12 - 14 Peer rejection and lack of friends are associated with the development of many disorders.15 - 17 Poor school performance in childhood is associated with poor outcomes in adulthood, such as unemployment.18 Witnessing community violence has been shown to be a mental health hazard for adults and children.19, 20 These major childhood adversities are not currently measured by the ACE scale.

Findings suggest that parents contribute to an increased frequency of chronic adversities but not negative life events prior to their child's most recent onset of anxiety.

Early adversity increases adaptive challenges faced by adolescents who are already dealing with the normative biological, cognitive, and social changes that occur during this life stage (Cicchetti and Rogosch 2002; Conger et al. 1994; Harter 2012; Hildyard and Wolfe 2002; Steinberg 2008).

For instance, stressful life contexts encountered in childhood and adolescence, such as family economic hardship, parents» marital conflict, or community adversity often increase the likelihood that these youth will face additional hardship (e.g., Conger et al. 2002; El - Sheikh et al. 2013; Wickrama et al. 2005).

Such studies have also shown increased rates of both negative life events and chronic adversities for anxious children relative to controls [13, 14, 15].