APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Childhood Adversity, Coping, and Adjustment in College

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Clinical Science

  • Maria Kalpidou
    Assumption College
  • Adam Volungis
    Assumption College
  • Cassandra Bates
    Assumption College
  • Erin Mamott
    Assumption College
  • Cora Spillman
    Assumption College

Abstract

We examined the relationship between childhood adversity experience (ACE) and college adjustment as mediated by executive functioning and coping. Those with high ACEs reported greater cognitive failure and negative coping. The relationship between ACEs and adjustment was fully mediated by negative coping. Cognitive failure made a unique contribution to adjustment.

Psychopathology

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