Harshness and Chaos: Childhood Factors Associated with Emerging Adults’ Mental Health

College students (N=201) with more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) also reported more anxiety and depression;  asking about intensity/frequency bolstered the correlations, but the associations were not significantly stronger. More ACEs correlated with more childhood family unpredictability. Taken together, only ACEs predicted anxiety, however ACES and unpredictability independently predicted depression.