Relationships Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and psychological
resilience and Cognitive Emotional Behavioral Regulation in College
Students
Abstract
This study aimed to determine the effects of adverse childhood
experiences and childhood experiences on adolescents’ psychological
resilience and Cognitive Emotional Behavioral regulation. Four hundred
thirty-three(n:433) students (18-21 years old) attending a Vocational
School of a University in Turkey completed online questionnaires using
the Childhood Experiences Scale, the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Scale,
the Adult Resilience Scale, and the Negative Childhood Experiences
Scale-Turkish version. In the study, it is seen that the psychological
resilience of adolescents differs according to age. No significant
difference was found between men and women in the study. When
cognitive-emotional regulation strategies are examined, it is seen that
18-year-old adolescents are more likely to blame- others than 19- and
20-year-old adolescents. Although there were no differences in
psychological resilience in the study, differences were obtained between
women and adolescents regarding cognitive and emotional regulation. It
was found that female adolescents used the strategies of “self-blame,
blame-others, rumination, catastrophizing, and positive refocusing,”
which are among the Cognitive Emotional Regulation Strategies more than
male adolescents. It has been determined that male adolescents use ”
Putting into perspective ” more. As a result of regression analysis,
differences in childhood experiences and psychological resistance were
obtained according to age. The psychological resistance of 20 -year -old
adolescents with a high score of submissiveness, threat, and unvalued
was found to be high. In our study, a positive relationship was observed
between rumination and adolescents who had an experience of being
unvalued and submissive from their childhood experiences. In contrast,
those who had less adverse childhood experiences used rumination more.