Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) play critical roles in adolescent mental health, influencing onset and recovery. Informed by the Social-Ecological Risk and Protective Factors framework, the current study examines ACEs as barriers and PCEs as facilitators in recovery from anxiety and depression. We used continuous score and categorical subgroup models to capture both linear and potential threshold effects.
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