Resilience and cognitive biases mediate the relationship between early exposure to traumatic life events and depressive symptoms in young adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 254 ◽  
pp. 26-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmara Mętel ◽  
Aleksandra Arciszewska ◽  
Artur Daren ◽  
Dorota Frydecka ◽  
Andrzej Cechnicki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Early Exposure ◽  
Traumatic Life Events ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Toward a Complex Network of Risks for Psychosis: Combining Trauma, Cognitive Biases, Depression, and Psychotic-like Experiences on a Large Sample of Young Adults

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Gawęda ◽  
Renata Pionke ◽  
Jessica Hartmann ◽  
Barnaby Nelson ◽  
Andrzej Cechnicki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Epidemiologic Studies ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Experience Of Care ◽  
Traumatic Life Events

Abstract Although the linkage between traumatic life events and psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) is well established, the knowledge of potential mechanisms of this relationship is scarce. The aim of the present study was to better understand the structure of connections between traumatic life events and PLEs by considering at the same time the role of cognitive biases and depressive symptoms in the population of young adults (18–35 years of age, M = 26.52, SD = 4.74, n = 6772). Our study was conducted within a framework of network analysis. PLEs were measured with the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ-16), cognitive biases were measured with nine items from the Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale-18 (DACOBS-18), depressive symptoms were assessed with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression Scale (CESD-R) and exposure to traumatic life events was measured with a combination of Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse Questionnaire (CECA.Q) and Traumatic Experience Checklist (TEC). The results present a network of all nodes being interconnected within and between domains, with no isolated factors. Exposures to sexual trauma were the most central node in the network. Pathways were identified from trauma to PLEs via cognitive biases and depressive symptoms. However, the shortest pathway between the most central traumatic life event and PLEs was through other traumatic life events, without cognitive biases or depressive symptoms along the way. Our findings suggest the importance of environmental adversities as well as dysfunctional information processing and depression in the network of psychosis risks.

The role of self-disturbances and cognitive biases in the relationship between traumatic life events and psychosis proneness in a non-clinical sample

2018 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 218-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Gawęda ◽  
Katarzyna Prochwicz ◽  
Przemysław Adamczyk ◽  
Dorota Frydecka ◽  
Błażej Misiak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Psychosis Proneness ◽  
Traumatic Life Events ◽  
The Relationship

Mediating role of cognitive biases, resilience and depressive symptoms in the relationship between childhood trauma and psychotic‐like experiences in young adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmara Mętel ◽  
Aleksandra Arciszewska ◽  
Artur Daren ◽  
Renata Pionke ◽  
Andrzej Cechnicki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Dissociative Experiences Mediate the Relationship Between Traumatic Life Events and Types of Skin Picking. Findings From Non-clinical Sample

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Kłosowska ◽  
Rachela Antosz-Rekucka ◽  
Alina Kałużna-Wielobób ◽  
Katarzyna Prochwicz
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Skin Picking ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Dissociative Experiences ◽  
Traumatic Life Events ◽  
Path Analyses ◽  
Excoriation Disorder ◽  
The Relationship

Aim: Skin-picking (excoriation) disorder is considered as a form of maladaptive coping methods used by individuals who have difficulties in applying more adaptive strategies. Skin-picking development has been suggested to be preceded by traumatic life events. Dissociative symptoms have been reported as experienced by skin-picking sufferers during picking episodes. The purpose of the study was to examine whether the link between trauma and automatic type of skin-picking is mediated by the frequency of dissociative experiences, and whether the COVID-19 pandemic conditions have changed this relationship in any way.Methods: The study sample consisted of 594 adults (76% women) aged from 18 to 60. Traumatic life events, dissociative experiences, and types of skin-picking (focused vs. automatic) were assessed with self-report questionnaires. Mediation analyses and multigroup path analyses were carried out.Results: Dissociative experiences partially mediated the link between traumatic events and both types of skin-picking. The model was robust considering the conditions in which survey was filled out (pre-pandemic vs. pandemic).Conclusions: Traumatic life events and dissociative experiences are associated with both automatic and focused skin-picking regardless of pandemic conditions. Further studies are needed to understand mechanisms underlying the relationship between dissociation and skin-picking styles.

The Problem with Square Pegs: Sexual Orientation Concordance as a Predictor of Depressive Symptoms

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Caplan
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Relationship

The author uses a nationally representative sample of cisgender young adults to examine the relationship between sexual orientation concordance and the prevalence of depressive symptoms. In these analyses, the author differentiates between those with an exclusive identity (100 percent gay or 100 percent straight) and those with a nonexclusive identity (“mostly gay,” “mostly straight,” or bisexual). Among those with an exclusive identity, the author differentiates between those with behavior and attraction that is in line with (concordant) or goes against (discordant) a claimed gay or straight identity. Those with a concordant sexual orientation report significantly lower depressive symptoms scores than do those with either a discordant sexual orientation or a nonexclusive identity. When accounting for orientation, concordance is significantly associated with depressive symptoms for straight- but not gay-identified young adults. These findings generally hold for women, but not for men when change in identity is controlled for.

Effects of traumatic life events, cognitive biases and variation in dopaminergic genes on psychosis proneness

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamila Kotowicz ◽  
Dorota Frydecka ◽  
Łukasz Gawęda ◽  
Katarzyna Prochwicz ◽  
Joanna Kłosowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Psychosis Proneness ◽  
Traumatic Life Events ◽  
Dopaminergic Genes

Expanding our understanding of the relationship between negative life events and depressive symptoms in black and white adolescent girls

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 1319-1330 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBRA L. FRANKO ◽  
RUTH H. STRIEGEL-MOORE ◽  
KATHLEEN M. BROWN ◽  
BRUCE A. BARTON ◽  
ROBERT P. McMAHON ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
White Female ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
The Relationship

Background. Little is known about the extent to which negative life events predict depressive symptoms in ethnically diverse groups or whether this relationship is proximal or enduring.Method. The relationship between negative life events in adolescence and depressive symptoms in young adulthood was studied in a sample of over 1300 black and white female adolescents. Five domains of life events were assessed at age 16 years and depressive symptoms were measured at age 18 and again at age 21 years. Questions of interest included whether the association continued over time and whether there were specific domains of life events that predicted symptoms better than others.Results. The total number of negative life events at time 1 predicted depressive symptoms at both time 2 and time 3. Interpersonal loss events and other adversities, however, predicted depressive symptoms only at time 2, whereas at time 3, only interpersonal trauma was a significant predictor. No ethnic differences were found, indicating that the relationship between life events and depressive symptoms appears to be similar for black and white adolescent girls.Conclusions. The results suggest that negative life events and some specific type of stressors increase the likelihood of the onset of depression symptoms in future years, for both black and white girls. Early preventive efforts should be directed at adolescents who experience loss due to death of a significant other, traumatic events, and psychosocial adversities to forestall the development of depressive symptoms.

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