Brown RC, et al. - Researchers performed a cross-sectional study including 2,491 participants from the general population of Germany (M_age=48.3 years, 53.2 % female) to investigate the association of child maltreatment and bullying and pain experiences. Findings revealed a marked relationship between increasing pain levels and number of adverse childhood experiences. With regard to specific types of maltreatment, emotional abuse displayed the largest effect sizes. Bullying had significant, but overall moderate, relation to pain suffering. Maltreatment in all forms was associated with pain in women, while only sexual and physical abuse revealed significant effects in men. Despite significantly associating with the experience of current pain, depression and anxiety scores did not change the effect of child maltreatment on pain significantly.