{"id":8750,"date":"2022-10-25T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/?p=8750"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:02:24","slug":"the-impact-of-trauma-history-and-family-of-origin-relationships-on-health-behaviors-and-relationships-in-adulthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/the-impact-of-trauma-history-and-family-of-origin-relationships-on-health-behaviors-and-relationships-in-adulthood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Trauma History and Family of Origin Relationships on Health Behaviors and Relationships in Adulthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Jessica Cless and Hans St. Eloi Cadely&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<figure style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-1200x wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1267\/Cless-headshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Cless\" width=\"185\" height=\"185\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Jessica Cless:<\/strong> Assistant Professor Human Development and Family Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1267\/Hans-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Hans Saint-Eloi Cadely\" width=\"185\" height=\"185\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Hans Saint-Eloi Cadely:<\/strong> Associate Professor, Developmental Science Grad Program Director, Human Development and Family Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beyond mental health outcomes, research has demonstrated a strong link between the incidence of&nbsp;traumatic stress and poor physical health outcomes. To name a few, traumatic stress can have a negative&nbsp;impact on sleep (Biggs et al., 2020), obesity and metabolic health (Rasmusson et al., 2010), and exercise&nbsp;(Smith-Marek et al., 2018; Winning et al, 2017). These impacts represent a burden not only to the individual,&nbsp;but also to larger systems of care. For those who experience childhood trauma, for example, the lifetime cost&nbsp;of recovery related care for an individual is $210,012, exceeding the cost of Type II Diabetes ($181,000;&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control, 2012). Research establishing these links has largely been correlational. In order&nbsp;to help individuals who have experienced trauma and to reduce associated health care costs, a deeper&nbsp;understanding is needed to understand potential causal links between traumatic stress and later life health&nbsp;behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose is to investigate underlying mechanisms of how history of trauma and&nbsp;family of origin relationships relate to health and relationship behaviors in adulthood. Jessica Cless will extend&nbsp;existing literature by testing how family of origin factors (e.g., family cohesion, quality of relationships) relates&nbsp;to positive coping in response to traumatic stress. Both individual and family member factors will be tested to&nbsp;determine if actor\/partner effects are related to health and relationship outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Findings from this study will be used to apply for larger funding sources that can be used to sustain this&nbsp;research over time. Specifically, funds will be applied to either an R21 Grant Application to the National&nbsp;Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) or other appropriate federal funding opportunities as they become available.&nbsp;This project will be a collaboration between Dr. Jessica Cless (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Hans Saint-Eloi&nbsp;Cadely (Co-Investigator). Both investigators bring subject matter expertise to the project (Dr. Cless: traumatic&nbsp;stress, Dr. Saint-Eloi Cadely: <i>relationships).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Cless and Hans St. Eloi Cadely&nbsp; Beyond mental health outcomes, research has demonstrated a strong link between the incidence of&nbsp;traumatic stress and poor physical health outcomes. To name a few, traumatic stress can have a negative&nbsp;impact on sleep (Biggs et al., 2020), obesity and metabolic health (Rasmusson et al., 2010), and exercise&nbsp;(Smith-Marek et al., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workgroup-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9883,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}