Childhood Trauma and Neuroticism: Implications for Mental Health in Mexican Americans

Knight, Cory; McNaughton-Cassill, Mary; Morissette, Sandra B.; Weston, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/15348431.2020.1740094

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“…Furthermore, data supports that a personality trait-neuroticism-is the strongest predictor of poor mental health. Previous research shows that neuroticism is a mediating variable to understand poor mental health amongst Mexican Americans with childhood trauma (Knight et al, 2023), and that it poses emotion regulation difficulties for adolescents (Singh, 2022). Our results may indicate the development of neuroticism as a personality trait for LGBTQ + Mexicans.…”

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Perceived Social Support and Mental Health Indicators of a Mexican LGBT Sample During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lozano-Verduzco

Vega-Cauich

Mendoza‐Pérez

et al. 2023

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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The COVID-19 pandemic created mental health challenges for LGBTQ + communities worldwide, however there is a paucity of research on Mexican populations. Existing data show that LGBTQ + people in Mexico experience acute forms of violence and discrimination that impact their mental health. This article explores the relationship between social support, discrimination, and mental health for LGBTQ + populations in Mexico (N = 1525) during the COVID-19 lockdown. Utilizing social media recruitment strategies, participants answered an online survey exploring five mental health indicators: depression, anxiety, stress, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt during lockdown. Mediating, and multiple regression analyses revealed that neuroticism is the most important variable in predicting poor mental health, and that perceived social support plays a mediating role in the case of depression. Discomfort with one’s own family holds positive correlations with mental health indicators, showing that the greater the discomfort, higher levels of depression, anxiety, stress, and suicidal ideation. Results also showed that discrimination, and drug use hold significant relationships to suicidal attempt. Practice recommendations for Mexican LGBTQ + communities are offered.

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Perceived Social Support and Mental Health Indicators of a Mexican LGBT Sample During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lozano-Verduzco

Vega-Cauich

Mendoza‐Pérez

et al. 2023

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…The relevance of understanding and meeting the mental health needs of young people is reinforced by the growing recognition of the importance of the early years in future mental health problems in adulthood [ 7 ]. As observed among the general population, experiencing one or more traumatic events in childhood may increase vulnerability to developing psychopathology as a young adult after stress exposure [ 8 ]. Children show individual differences in behavioral style and temperament from birth onward, and these individual differences play a significant role in the course of normal and deviant psychological development, at least into early adulthood [ 9 ].…”

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“…Children show individual differences in behavioral style and temperament from birth onward, and these individual differences play a significant role in the course of normal and deviant psychological development, at least into early adulthood [ 9 ]. This research points to neuroticism and non-adaptive emotional regulation strategies as indicators of poor mental health [ 8 , 9 ]. Therefore, in order to evaluate the mental health of children and adolescents with craniofacial alterations that condition their interaction with the environment and, consequently, their behavior, it will be important to analyze those psychological variables (i.e., emotional regulation and neuroticism) that may interfere in their correct development and which may influence their mental health.…”

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Looking at the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents with Cleft Lip and/or Palate through Neuroticism and Emotional Regulation Strategies: A Case-Controlled Observational Study

Ruiz-Guillén,

González-Olmo,

Castañeda-López

et al. 2024

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Background: Children and adolescents with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) are at an increased risk of developing emotional disorders. This study aims to explore this question in greater depth by addressing three objectives: (1) the presence of neuroticism as an indicator of emotional symptomatology, (2) the use of adaptive and non-adaptive emotional regulation strategies, and (3) the relationship between these strategies and neuroticism. Methods: A case–control correlational methodology was employed, with 60 children and adolescents with CL/P (mean age = 12.80 years; 33 females) and 60 non-clinical equivalent children and adolescents. Results: The CL/P group has higher scores on neuroticism (t = −7.74; p ≤ 0.001, d Cohen = 1.43) and lower scores in almost all emotional regulation strategies. The presence of CL/P moderated the relationship between neuroticism and self-blame (Beta = −0.46, t = −2.81, p = 0.005), rumination (Beta = −0.49, t = −3.73, p < 0.001), catastrophizing (Beta = −0.61, t = −4.26, p < 0.001), and blaming others (Beta = −0.45, t = −2.84, p = 0.005). This model predicted a significant variance of neuroticism (all p < 0.005), which ranged from 39% to 41%. Conclusions: The CL/P group has worse mental health indicators. Particularly novel results about the CL/P group are the lower scores on regulation strategies (both adaptive and non-adaptive) and the fact that non-adaptive strategies contribute, contrary to their effect in the general population, to a decrease in neuroticism. It supports the need to incorporate mental health indicators in the diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with CL/P.

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Childhood Trauma and Neuroticism: Implications for Mental Health in Mexican Americans

Cited by 2 publications

References 70 publications

Perceived Social Support and Mental Health Indicators of a Mexican LGBT Sample During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Perceived Social Support and Mental Health Indicators of a Mexican LGBT Sample During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Looking at the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents with Cleft Lip and/or Palate through Neuroticism and Emotional Regulation Strategies: A Case-Controlled Observational Study

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