The mediator roles of trait anxiety, hostility, and impulsivity in the association between childhood trauma and dissociation in male substance-dependent inpatients

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cuneyt Evren ◽  
Ozgul Cınar ◽  
Bilge Evren ◽  
Muge Ulku ◽  
Vahap Karabulut ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Substance Dependent

scholarly journals Extending the vulnerability–stress model of mental disorders: three-dimensional NPSR1 × environment × coping interaction study in anxiety

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 (5) ◽  
pp. 645-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam A. Schiele ◽  
Katharina Herzog ◽  
Leonie Kollert ◽  
Christoph Schartner ◽  
Elisabeth J. Leehr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Stress Model ◽  
Coping Ability ◽  
And Coping ◽  
General Self Efficacy

BackgroundThe general understanding of the ‘vulnerability–stress model’ of mental disorders neglects the modifying impact of resilience-increasing factors such as coping ability.AimsProbing a conceptual framework integrating both adverse events and coping factors in an extended ‘vulnerability–stress–coping model’ of mental disorders, the effects of functional neuropeptide S receptor gene (NPSR1) variation (G), early adversity (E) and coping factors (C) on anxiety were addressed in a three-dimensional G × E × C model.MethodIn two independent samples of healthy probands (discovery: n = 1403; replication: n = 630), the interaction of NPSR1 rs324981, childhood trauma (Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, CTQ) and general self-efficacy as a measure of coping ability (General Self-Efficacy Scale, GSE) on trait anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) was investigated via hierarchical multiple regression analyses.ResultsIn both samples, trait anxiety differed as a function of NPSR1 genotype, CTQ and GSE score (discovery: β = 0.129, P = 3.938 × 10−8; replication: β = 0.102, P = 0.020). In A allele carriers, the relationship between childhood trauma and anxiety was moderated by general self-efficacy: higher self-efficacy and childhood trauma resulted in low anxiety scores, and lower self-efficacy and childhood trauma in higher anxiety levels. In turn, TT homozygotes displayed increased anxiety as a function of childhood adversity unaffected by general self-efficacy.ConclusionsFunctional NPSR1 variation and childhood trauma are suggested as prime moderators in the vulnerability–stress model of anxiety, further modified by the protective effect of self-efficacy. This G × E × C approach – introducing coping as an additional dimension further shaping a G × E risk constellation, thus suggesting a three-dimensional ‘vulnerability–stress–coping model’ of mental disorders – might inform targeted preventive or therapeutic interventions strengthening coping ability to promote resilient functioning.

Childhood trauma and neuroticism as an adult: possible implication for the development of the common psychiatric disorders and suicidal behaviour

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 1471-1474 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEC ROY
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Dimension ◽  
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Substance Dependent ◽  
Physical Neglect

Background. Neuroticism is an important personality dimension associated with depressive and anxiety disorders. Both genetic and social factors are thought to contribute to neuroticism. This study aims to examine whether early childhood adversity may be a determinant of neuroticism.Method. Five hundred and thirty-two abstinent substance dependent patients completed both the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ).Results. There was a significant relationship between total childhood trauma scores on the CTQ and neuroticism scores on the EPQ. There were also significant relationships between neuroticism and CTQ subscores for emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect and physical neglect.Conclusions. Childhood trauma may be a determinant of neuroticism. This may be one way in which childhood trauma plays a role in the development of psychiatric disorders. General population studies are needed.

Childhood Trauma, Trait Anxiety, and Anxious Attachment as Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence in College Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (23-24) ◽  
pp. 6067-6082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. McClure ◽  
Megan Parmenter
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Dating Relationships ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Physical Neglect ◽  
Childhood Emotional Abuse ◽  
College Dating

The current study investigates the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV), childhood trauma, trait anxiety, depression, and anxious attachment in college students. Ninety-three male and 161 female undergraduate students at Fairfield University, ranging in age from 17 to 23, with a mean age of 18.8 years, participated. Participants completed five self-report inventories: The Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory (CADRI), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and the Adult Attachment Scale (AAS). IPV perpetration in college dating relationships was related to childhood emotional and physical abuse, emotional and physical neglect, and trait anxiety. IPV victimization in college dating relationships was related to childhood emotional and physical abuse, childhood emotional and physical neglect, and an anxious attachment style. IPV perpetration and victimization were also significantly correlated with one another. Subscale analyses suggest that childhood emotional abuse was related to being both the perpetrator and victim of verbal or emotional abuse in dating relationships. Childhood physical abuse, physical neglect, and emotional abuse were related to both perpetration and victimization of physical IPV. Threatening behavior perpetration in dating relationships was related to childhood emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical abuse, and physical neglect; however, being the victim of threatening behavior was only related to childhood emotional abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect, not childhood physical abuse. These results support the relationship between childhood trauma and dating violence in college students. They also support a role for anxiety in IPV, although trait anxiety was related to perpetration and an anxious attachment style was correlated with IPV victimization. In addition, they suggest that different experiences of childhood trauma may relate to different aspects of IPV in college dating relationships.

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