The role of psychiatric symptoms and environmental vulnerability factors in explaining the relationship between child maltreatment and suicidality: A prospective investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 276 ◽  
pp. 720-731
Author(s):  
Cathy Spatz Widom ◽  
Xuechen Li
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
Environmental Vulnerability ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Prospective Investigation

Association Between Dating Violence and Behavioral and Health Outcomes Among Early Adolescents From Denmark: The Role of Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 690-711
Author(s):  
Sidsel Karsberg ◽  
Ruby Charak ◽  
Ask Elklit
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Adolescent Dating Violence ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

AimTo examine the unique contribution of child maltreatment victimization on the association between adolescent dating violence (ADV) and four negative behavioral and health-related factors.MethodIn total, 2,934 7th grade students (M = 13.5, SD = .5) filled out questionnaires at school. Binominal logistic regression was performed to assess the impact of child maltreatment on the relationship between ADV and behavioral and health-related factors.ResultsAfter child maltreatment was taken into account, associations between ADV and the negative behavioral and health-related factors became weaker.ConclusionsThe findings from the present study suggest that focusing on one victimization type (such as ADV) when examining psychological outcomes, can be problematic as the causal relationship may be misrepresented when an adolescent's broader victimization profile and context is not considered.

The relationship between social vulnerability and the occurrence of severely threatening life events

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Champion
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship

SYNOPSISResearch on the role of life events in the onset of depression has suggested that certain vulnerability factors can increase the risk of disorder in the face of a threatening event. The role of vulnerability factors to increase the likelihood of severs events occurring in the first place has remained largelu unexplored. The vulnerability factor which has received the most attention is a lack of social support, particularly lack of a confiding relationship with a husband for women. A reanalysis of a number of published studies is undertaken; this shows that there is a positive relationship between lack of intimacy and the occurrence of adversity. The implications of this finding are briefly discussed, with emphasis on the need for a life-span developmental perspective in future life events research.

scholarly journals Does Mental Well-Being Protect against Self-Harm Thoughts and Behaviors during Adolescence? A Six-Month Prospective Investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6771
Author(s):  
Kirsten Russell ◽  
Susan Rasmussen ◽  
Simon C. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Depressive Symptomology ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Prospective Investigation

Mental well-being protects against the emergence of suicidal thoughts. However, it is not clear whether these findings extend to self-harm thoughts and behaviors irrespective of intent during adolescence—or why this relationship exists. The current study aimed to test predictions—informed by the integrated motivational–volitional (IMV) model of suicide—concerning the role of perceived defeat and entrapment within the link between mental well-being and self-harm risk. Young people (n = 573) from secondary schools across Scotland completed an anonymous self-report survey at two time points, six months apart, that assessed mental well-being, self-harm thoughts and behaviors, depressive symptomology and feelings of defeat and entrapment. Mental well-being was associated with reduced defeat and entrapment (internal and external) and a decrease in the likelihood that a young person would engage in self-harm thoughts and behaviors. The relationship between mental well-being and thoughts of self-harm was mediated by perceptions of defeat and entrapment (internal and external). Mental well-being was indirectly related to self-harm behaviors via decreased feelings of defeat and internal (but not external) entrapment. Taken together, these findings provide novel insights into the psychological processes linking mental well-being and self-harm risk and highlight the importance of incorporating the promotion of mental well-being within future prevention and early intervention efforts.

Common Features of PTSD Cases Amongst a Group of Military Staff Referred From the Southeast Region of Turkey

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Sungur ◽  
B. Aksin Surmeli ◽  
Ahmet Ozcubukcuoglu
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Military Hospital ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
Military Academy ◽  
Degree Of Disability ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Military ◽  
Southeastern Region

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is characterized by the typical psychiatric symptoms that emerge following a distressing event that is outside the range of usual human experience. These events include any serious threat to a person’s life or physical integrity. Similar events are experienced by the members of the Turkish Armed Forces who work in the southeastern region of Turkey and are under the threat of continual terrorist attacks, which often prove to be fatal and cause great distress and anxiety. This study investigates the possibility of a rise in the number of PTSD cases in the military staff due to the increasing life-threatening events that occur in the southeastern region of Turkey. Referrals made in 1992 from the southeast military sample to the psychiatry Department of Gulhane Military Academy, the main military hospital in Turkey, are investigated. The study compares and contrasts the role of the trauma and premorbid vulnerability factors, investigates the severity of symptoms, the degree of disability caused by the disorder, the range of concurrent psychiatric disorders along with PTSD, the different onset patterns of morbidity, and the demographical characteristics of the cases.

scholarly journals A Preliminary Investigation of the Association Between Misophonia and Symptoms of Psychopathology and Personality Disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clair Cassiello-Robbins ◽  
Deepika Anand ◽  
Kibby McMahon ◽  
Jennifer Brout ◽  
Lisalynn Kelley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Early Research ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnoses ◽  
Emotional Responding ◽  
Diagnostic Interviews ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
The Relationship

Misophonia is a condition characterized by defensive motivational system emotional responding to repetitive and personally relevant sounds (e.g., eating, sniffing). Preliminary research suggests misophonia may be associated with a range of psychiatric disorders, including personality disorders. However, very little research has used clinician-rated psychometrically validated diagnostic interviews when assessing the relationship between misophonia and psychopathology. The purpose of this study was to extend the early research in this area by examining the relationship between symptoms of misophonia and psychiatric diagnoses in a sample of community adults, using semi-structured diagnostic interviews. Results indicated higher misophonia symptoms were associated with more clinician-rated symptoms of personality disorders, but not other disorders. Anxiety partially mediated the relationship between personality disorder symptoms and misophonia. These results suggest misophonia may be associated with a range of psychiatric symptoms and highlight the role of anxiety in this poorly understood condition.

scholarly journals A Prospective Investigation of the Relationship Between Child Maltreatment and Indicators of Adult Psychological Well-Being

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 764-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd I. Herrenkohl ◽  
J. Bart Klika ◽  
Roy C. Herrenkohl ◽  
M. Jean Russo ◽  
Tamara Dee
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Child Neglect ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Childhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Prospective Investigation

The study of psychological well-being will advance understanding of child maltreatment effects and resilience processes. In this study, the mean level of anger in adulthood was significantly higher for those identified three decades earlier as having been maltreated. Mean levels of self-esteem, autonomy, purpose in life, perceived (fewer) constraints, and happiness and satisfaction were lower for those who were maltreated according to child welfare reports. Officially recorded child maltreatment was moderately (r < .30) correlated with several psychological well-being indicators and predictive of adult anger, self-esteem, autonomy, and happiness/life satisfaction after accounting for childhood socioeconomic status (SES), gender, and other sources of data on child abuse and neglect. Parent-reported abusive disciplining also uniquely predicted several outcomes, as did a measure of observed child neglect to a lesser extent.

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