Individuals at high risk for psychosis experience more childhood trauma, life events and social support deficit in comparison to healthy controls

2019 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 296-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuo-Hui Huang ◽  
Cai-Lan Hou ◽  
Ying-Hua Huang ◽  
Xiao-Yan He ◽  
Qian-Wen Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Healthy Controls

Psychosocial factors and chronic fatigue syndrome

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzan Lewis ◽  
Cary L. Cooper ◽  
Derrick Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Irritable Bowel Syndrome ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Type A ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Irritable Bowel

SynopsisThis study investigated the number and severity of life events, Type A behaviour, coping strategies and social support differences between chronic fatigue and irritable bowel syndrome patients prior to illness and between these groups and healthy controls. Although few differences were found between the groups for life events, a number of interesting results emerged with regard to different aspects of Type A behaviour, various coping strategies and social support. These findings are discussed with respect to existing research in the field.

Prediction of psychological symptoms under high-risk psychosocial circumstances: Life events, social support, and symptom specificity.

1983 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott M. Monroe ◽  
Donald F. Imhoff ◽  
Beverly D. Wise ◽  
Joyce E. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Psychological Symptoms

scholarly journals A case-control study of childhood trauma and recent adverse life events in the development of irritable bowel syndrome

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyu Dong ◽  
Xiaomei Wang ◽  
Liqian Xuan ◽  
Junwen Wang ◽  
Tingting Zhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Mental Component Summary ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Adverse Life Events ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Irritable Bowel

Abstract Background: Childhood trauma has been found to be associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in adulthood, whereas whether recent adverse life events affect the effect of childhood trauma on IBS is still poorly understood.Methods: 56 IBS and 50 healthy controls were enrolled. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Life Event Scale, IBS – Quality Of Life (IBS-QOL), IBS – Severity Scoring System (IBS-SSS) and MOS 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) were completed in IBS patients and healthy controls. The logistic regression model, correlation analysis and student t-test were used to investigate the relationship among childhood trauma, recent adverse life events and IBS.Results: Gender, emotional abuse and recent adverse life events were independent predictors for IBS in adulthood. The overall CTQ was highly correlated with IBS-QOL and mental component summary in SF-36, but was moderately and weakly correlated with IBS-SSS and physical component summary in SF-36 respectively. The similar correlation of overall CTQ with IBS-QOL, physical component summary and mental component summary was found in both subgroups stratified by recent adverse life events. However, the correlation between overall CTQ and IBS-SSS was blunted in IBS patients with recent adverse life events. There was no significant difference on severity of symptoms and life quality between IBS patients who had experience of childhood trauma with or without recent adverse life events.Conclusions Female gender, emotional abuse and recent adverse life events were associated with a higher prevelance of IBS in adulthood. Childhood trauma might enhence severity of symptoms and worsen quality of life in IBS patients. However, recent adverse life events might dilute this correlation of childhood trauma with severity of symptoms, but not stengthen the effect of childhood trauma on symptoms.

The Impact of Stressful Life Events and Social Support on Drinking among Older Adults: A General Population Survey

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Jennison
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Prolonged Exposure ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Stressful Life ◽  
Stress Buffering ◽  
The Impact

This article is an analysis of stressful life events, the buffering hypothesis, and alcohol use in a national sample of 1,418 respondents 60 years of age and over. The results indicate that older adults who experience stressful losses are significantly more likely to drink excessively than those who have not experienced such losses or who have experienced them to a lesser extent. Increased drinking among older adults may therefore be a reaction to life circumstances in which alcohol represents an attempt to cope with traumatic loss, personal as well as within the kinship network. Supportive resources of spouse, family, friends, and church appear to have a stress-buffering effects that reduces the excessive-drinking response to life crisis. Data suggest, however, that older persons are vulnerable to the magnitude of losses experienced as they grow older and lose more of their family, friends, and peers. These stressors appear to seriously impact their drinking behavior and are not effectively buffered. Respondents report that drinking may increase during periods of prolonged exposure to emotionally depleting life change and loss, when supportive needs may exceed the capacities of personal and social support resources.

scholarly journals General psychopathology links burden of recent life events and psychotic symptoms in a network approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda T. Betz ◽  
◽  
Nora Penzel ◽  
Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic ◽  
Marlene Rosen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
General Psychopathology ◽  
Recent Onset ◽  
Syndrome Scale ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Individual

AbstractRecent life events have been implicated in the onset and progression of psychosis. However, psychological processes that account for the association are yet to be fully understood. Using a network approach, we aimed to identify pathways linking recent life events and symptoms observed in psychosis. Based on previous literature, we hypothesized that general symptoms would mediate between recent life events and psychotic symptoms. We analyzed baseline data of patients at clinical high risk for psychosis and with recent-onset psychosis (n = 547) from the Personalised Prognostic Tools for Early Psychosis Management (PRONIA) study. In a network analysis, we modeled links between the burden of recent life events and all individual symptoms of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale before and after controlling for childhood trauma. To investigate the longitudinal associations between burden of recent life events and symptoms, we analyzed multiwave panel data from seven timepoints up to month 18. Corroborating our hypothesis, burden of recent life events was connected to positive and negative symptoms through general psychopathology, specifically depression, guilt feelings, anxiety and tension, even after controlling for childhood trauma. Longitudinal modeling indicated that on average, burden of recent life events preceded general psychopathology in the individual. In line with the theory of an affective pathway to psychosis, recent life events may lead to psychotic symptoms via heightened emotional distress. Life events may be one driving force of unspecific, general psychopathology described as characteristic of early phases of the psychosis spectrum, offering promising avenues for interventions.

The influence of family therapy on psychological stress and social adaptability of depressed patients

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Qinghua Chen ◽  
Wenqing Zhao ◽  
Qun Li ◽  
Harnof Sagi
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
College Students ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Psychological Stress ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Social Adaptability ◽  
And Coping

BACKGROUND: with the increase of study and life pressure, the number of depressed college students showed an increasing trend year by year, and the drug treatment alone could not achieve a comprehensive recovery of depression patients, so it was more necessary to pay attention to the spiritual treatment. OBJECTIVE: this research aimed to better understand the relationship between college students’ depression and life events, social support, psychological pressure, and coping style, and the influence of systematic family therapy on depression degree, psychological stress, and social adaptability of college students with depression. METHODS: in this study, 105 college students with depression were selected as the research object, and healthy college students were taken as the control group. Through questionnaire, the differences in life events, social support, psychological stress, and coping styles between the groups were compared. The correlation between the degree of depression and various variables were analyzed, and the impact path of each variable on depression was analyzed using the path analysis model. Depression patients were then divided into a conventional group treating with conventional medications and an observation group treating with systematic family interventions. Differences in Hamilton Depression Scale-17, (HAMD-17), CPSS, and Social Adaptive Functioning Evaluation (SAFE) scores were compared and analyzed between the two groups before treatment (T1), during the treatment (T2), and after treatment(T3). RESULTS: there were significant differences in scores of life events, social support, psychological stress, and coping styles between the healthy control group and the depressed patients (P <  0.05). There was an obvious correlation between different depression degrees and life events, social support, psychological stress, and coping styles (P <  0.05). Life events, social support, and psychological stress had a direct and significant impact on depression (0.250, 0.218, and 0.392; P <  0.05), and they also had an indirect and significant impact on depression through coping styles (P <  0.05). The systematic family treatment model could significantly reduce HAMD-17 and CPSS scores (P <  0.05), and significantly improve SAFE scores (P <  0.05). CONCLUSIONS: adverse life events, lack of social support, excessive psychological stress, and negative coping styles can aggravate college students’ depression. Systematic family therapy can improve the degree of depression, reduce the psychological stress, and enhance the social adaptability of college students with depression.

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