Predicting Addiction, Anxiety and Impulsivity based on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Depression, Hopelessness and Parental Health among adolescent girls

The aim of this research was to predict Addiction, Anxiety and Impulsivity based on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Depression, Hopelessness and Parental Health among adolescent girls. the research method was descriptive in the form of correlation and regression. The statistical community included all girls' students of the English teaching institutions in Ardabili in 2018. A sample of 165 girls were selected out of the community through available sampling. Research Measures included substance, alcohol, smoke and psychoactive drugs abuse questionnaire, adverse childhood experiences questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire-2, Hopelessness scale, impulsivity-aggression scale, family attention questionnaire and generalized anxiety questionnaire. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics' indices, Pearson correlation analysis, and regression by using SPSS 23. finding show that there is a positive significant correlation between adverse childhood experiences and addiction, anxiety, and impulsivity. Parental attention has a negative correlation with addiction, anxiety, and impulsivity. Also, Depression and hopelessness has a correlation with impulsivity and anxiety. Depression play an important role in predicting impulsivity and anxiety, but in predicting addiction, the role on adverse childhood experiences was more important. From these findings, it can be concluded that relationship among family members and early year's development are key factors in predicting later life disorders.