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December 8, 2025PLOS mental health.Open Access

Moving beyond cumulative exposure scores: Profiles of adverse life experiences and associations with mental health outcomes among emerging adults

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SBSara R. Berzenski

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Person-centered approach reveals significant mental health outcomes related to adverse life experiences in emerging adults, highlighting cumulative risk implications.

Key Points

  • This research aims to understand how patterns of adverse life experiences relate to mental health outcomes among emerging adults.
  • Analyzed data from 442 emerging adults at a university in Southern California.
  • Utilized Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to identify classes of adverse life experiences.
  • Conducted analysis of variance with Bonferroni-adjusted post-hoc tests to assess classes' relation to mental health outcomes.
  • Identified five classes of adverse life experiences: Low Adversity, Witnessing Adversity, Experiencing Death, Child Maltreatment and Adult Victimization, High Adversity.
  • Individuals in the High Adversity and Child Maltreatment classes showed the highest severity in mental health symptoms.
  • Findings suggest the importance of focusing on specific adversities rather than cumulative risk scores.

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Sara R. Berzenski (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69362f364fa91c937236d2e7https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000349
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