Recent dimensional models of adversity informed by a neurobiological deficit framework highlights threat and deprivation as core dimensions, whereas models informed by an evolutionary, adaptational and functional framework calls attention to harshness and unpredictability. This report seeks to evaluate an integrative model of threat, deprivation, and unpredictability, drawing on the Fragile Families Study. Confirmatory factor analysis of presumed multiple indicators of each construct reveals an adequate three-factor structure of adversity. Theory-based targeted predictions of the developmental sequelae of each dimension also received empirical support, with deprivation linked to health problems and cognitive ability; threat linked to aggression; and unpredictability to substance use and sexual risk-taking. These findings lend credibility to utility of the three-dimensional integrative framework of adversity. It could thus inform development of dimensional measures of risk assessment and exploration of multidimensional adversity profiles, sensitive to individual differences in lived experiences, supporting patient-centered, strength-based approaches to services.

最近由神经生物学缺陷框架提供的逆境维度模型将威胁和剥夺作为核心维度，而由进化、适应性和功能性框架提供的模型则呼吁关注严酷性和不可预测性。本报告旨在利用脆弱家庭研究评估威胁、剥夺和不可预测性的综合模型。对每个结构的假定多个指标的验证性因素分析揭示了一个适当的逆境三因素结构。基于理论的针对每个维度的发育后遗症的预测也得到了实证支持，剥夺与健康问题和认知能力有关；与侵略有关的威胁；以及药物使用和性冒险的不可预测性。这些发现为逆境的三维综合框架的效用提供了可信度。因此，它可以为风险评估的维度措施的发展和多维逆境概况的探索提供信息，对生活经历中的个体差异敏感，支持以患者为中心、基于力量的服务方法。