To examine the effects of exposure to post-weaning pre-puberty (juvenile) stress on the emotional and cognitive abilities in response to exposure to stress in adulthood, we first exposed rats to a platform stress at the age of 28 d. Two months later the rats were exposed to acute swim stress. Rats exposed to both stressors showed a higher level of anxiety (as measured both in open-field and sta...

This study examined the effects of emotional abuse in childhood, along with physical and sexual abuse, on suicidality in adulthood, and whether and how emotional abuse and depressive symptoms in adulthood mediate the association between the childhood emotional abuse and suicidality. The data were drawn from the 2012 Korean General Social Survey, a nationally representative survey with a multist...

Data from a long-term longitudinal study were used to investigate the relationship between grandiose narcissism in adolescence (ages 15-18) and psychological health in late adulthood (age 70s). Participants were born in 1920s in the San Francisco Bay Area and were assessed in adolescence and four times in adulthood (age 30s, 40s, 50s and 70s). Narcissism was assessed with the observer-based Cal...

Valid and reliable life-course cross-cohort comparisons of psychological distress are limited by differences in measures used. We aimed to examine adulthood distribution symptoms trends equating the scales psychological-distress administered 1946, 1958, 1970 British birth cohorts. used data from these three cohorts ( N = 32,242) an independently recruited calibration sample n 5,800) inform scal...

Researchers know relatively little about the educational attainment of sexual minorities, despite the fact that educational attainment is consistently associated with a range of social, economic, and health outcomes. We examined whether sexual attraction in adolescence and early adulthood was associated with educational attainment in early adulthood among a nationally representative sample of U...

Older adults typically exhibit about a half log unit loss in scotopic sensitivity that cannot be attributed to optical factors and retinal disease suggesting a neural origin. Little is understood about the developmental course of this neural deficit as to whether it first appears in late life or gradually emerges during the course of adulthood. To address this developmental issue, scotopic sens...

he transition from childhood to adulthood is often considered a time of growth in selfawareness, opportunities, and knowledge about the world. For girls in rural Egypt, however, this growth often does not occur. As girls reach adolescence, their lives become increasingly confined to the home, their opportunities limited to household chores, and their future prospects restricted to early marriag...

Abstract Objectives Guided by Finkelhor and Browne’s traumagenic dynamics model, the current study examines: 1) long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) other adverse experiences (ACEs) on older adults’ marital satisfaction, 2) mediating role intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in association between adversities 3) whether gender moderates mediational association. Research De...

BACKGROUND Anthropometric measures have been widely used for body weight classification in humans. Waist circumference has been advanced as a useful parameter for measuring adiposity. This study evaluated the correlation between body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference and examined their significance as indicators of health status in adults. DESIGN AND METHODS The subject included 489 he...