PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries AU - Iris Arends AU - Albertine J. Oldehinkel AU - Ute Bültmann TI - Associations between type of childhood adversities and labour market participation and employment conditions in young adults AID - 10.1136/jech-2022-219574 DP - 2023 Apr 01 TA - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health PG - 230--236 VI - 77 IP - 4 4099 - http://jech.bmj.com/content/77/4/230.short 4100 - http://jech.bmj.com/content/77/4/230.full SO - J Epidemiol Community Health2023 Apr 01; 77 AB - Background Cumulative exposure to childhood adversity is associated with a variety of labour market outcomes in young adulthood. It remains largely unclear whether the type of adversity matters in this association. This prospective study examined the differences in exposure to 14 adverse experiences among groups of young adults aged 22 characterised by distinct labour market participation states and employment conditions.Methods We used data from the TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives Survey, a Dutch prospective cohort study with 15 years of follow-up (N=1524). We included 14 adverse experiences (ages 0–16) across five domains: peer influences, loss or threat of loss, material deprivation, family dynamics and maltreatment. Labour market participation states and employment conditions were assessed at age 22. We used latent class analysis to derive labour market outcome groups, which we subsequently compared on exposure to adverse experiences using pairwise comparisons.Results Inactive individuals (n=85, 5.6%), often neither in education (77.4%) nor employment (98.6%) and on benefits (94.4%), were more likely to be exposed to many distinct types of adverse experiences (eg, parental addiction, bullying victimisation) as compared with all other groups. Early workers (n=413, 27.1%), often on temporary contracts and low monthly incomes, were more likely to be exposed to parental divorce (22.7%) compared with students with side jobs (12.9%).Conclusions Different adverse experiences are not equally associated with labour market outcomes. Researchers and stakeholders in policy and practice should be aware of the differences between adverse experiences in their importance for labour market outcomes in young adults.Data may be obtained from a third party and are not publicly available. TRAILS data of the T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 measurement waves are deposited in the Data Archiving and Networked Services of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (DANS-KNAW) and access can be requested at http://www.dans.knaw.nl.