Adult Aggressiveness and Adverse Childhood Experiences by Developmental Period

A study by Steffen Barra, last updated in April 2026, retrospectively assessed adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in 204 adults. The data examines ACEs during early childhood, late childhood, and adolescence and their relationship to current externalizing aggressiveness. The file is a 1.1 MB DOCX document shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the general link between total ACE burden and adult aggressiveness based on the described association.
• Investigate age-specific impacts of ACEs on aggression based on the three developmental periods assessed.
• Model the relationship between ACEs during adolescence and increased adult aggressiveness, as highlighted in the results.
• Design prevention and intervention measures based on age-sensitive analyses of the ACE-aggression link.

Strengths

• Data from 204 adult participants provides a foundation for analysis.
• Explicitly examines ACEs across three developmental periods: early childhood, late childhood, and adolescence.
• Results are shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The primary data format is a 1.1 MB DOCX file, which may require extraction or conversion for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Steffen Barra via figshare.

Collection Method

Retrospective assessment of ACEs and current aggressiveness in adults.

Time Range

The study timeframe is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 05:57:51; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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