et al., 1999; Jennison and Johnson, 2001), and PTSD (Emery et al., 1991) through childhood stress and hereditary vulnerability as well (Milne et al., 2009). Our findings are consistent with the existing literature on the close relationship between childhood experiences and adulthood psychopathology (Kessler et al., 1997b, 2010; Pérez-Fuentes et al., 2012; Sugaya et al., 2012), stressing the importance of promoting childhood mental health to prevent the development of psychiatric disorders in adulthood.
