The three-year study, published last Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics, tracked the emotional well-being of 7,329 children between the ages of five to 16 from 2004-07. It found that those who had been exposed to three or more stressful events since they were first surveyed were three times more likely to develop emotional disorders than those who had not.
Three per cent of the children surveyed who did not have an emotional or behavioural disorder in 2004 had developed one by 2007, with family, household and social characteristics strongly linked to their onset.
Emotional disorders included anxiety, depression and obsessions. Behavioral disorders were being awkward and troublesome or aggressive and antisocial.
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