Midlife self-reported social support as a buffer against premature mortality risks associated with childhood abuse

Chiang, Jessica J.; Chen, Eric; Miller, Gregory E.

doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0316-5

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“…The present findings may be an important clue supporting the growing body of evidence attempting to explain the factors that mitigate deleterious effects of childhood trauma. For example, a recent nationally-representative study reported that social support is one such factor (Chiang, Chen, & Miller, 2018), and the present evidence may suggest that some factor associated with moral utilitarian decision-making could be another.…”

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confidence: 50%

Effects of childhood trauma on adult moral decision-making: Clinical correlates and insights from bipolar disorder

Larsen

Ospina

Cuesta-Diaz

et al. 2019

Journal of Affective Disorders

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BACKGROUND.-Childhood adversity has been shown to exert profound effects on basic psychological processes well into adulthood. Some of these processes, such as those related to reward and emotion, play critical roles in moral decision-making. As a population with high rates of childhood trauma as well as heterogenous clinical presentation, individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) constitute an enriched group in which to examine the correlates of trauma and other clinical variables with moral cognition. METHODS.-62 euthymic BD patients and 27 controls responded to moral dilemma scenarios and completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. RESULTS.-Results revealed a main effect of diagnosis on moral decision-making only when both personal force and an intention were required, indicating a more utilitarian style in BD patients relative to controls. Several interesting patterns also emerged regardless of diagnostic status. Higher ratings of physical neglect were significantly associated with higher ratings of acceptability (a utilitarian tendency) across dilemma types, and a similar pattern was observed at the trend level for experiences of emotional neglect. Significant main effects on moral decisionmaking were also observed for sex, illness duration, and history of psychotic features in the BD sample.

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Section: Limitations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 50%

Effects of childhood trauma on adult moral decision-making: Clinical correlates and insights from bipolar disorder

Larsen

Ospina

Cuesta-Diaz

et al. 2019

Journal of Affective Disorders

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“…Thoits' research (1983) on the influence of social support on PH caused by life stress events indicated that social support can enhance the protection of self-consciousness and reduce the individual's psychological stress response [6], having a positive impact on the individual's PH. Lau proposed that social support could alleviate the negative effects of stress events on people's physical and psychological health, which supports Thoits' opinion [7,[24][25], and psychological research also confirms this. pointed out that cognition plays a key role in an individual's perception of social support [26]; in other words, cognitive working model, plays an important role.…”

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The relationship between psychological health and social support: Evidence from physicians in China

Sun

Jiang

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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Background The psychological health (PH) of doctors affects the quality of medical service and is related to the safety of patients. The serious problems with the doctor-patient relationship in China can lead to long-term imbalances in doctor PH, and the poor PH status of doctors has raised scholars' concern. Current research mainly focuses on how factors such as social support and the impact of the residential environment correlate with individual PH. We continue this direction of research to see how the mechanism of social support impacts physician PH, also investigating the moderating effect of demographic indicators on physician PH. Methods Based on a survey of 399 physicians, a descriptive analysis of measured data was done using SPSS 19.0. Pearson correlation coefficient analysis was used to examine the correlations between PH and the social support rating scale (SSRS) and the demographic variables. KMO and Bartlett methods were used to examine the correlations between PH and SDS (a scale to measure depression) and between PH and SAS (a scale to measure anxiety). The method of factor analysis was used for multicollinearity tests, and multiple stepwise regression analysis was used to explore the demographic factors correlated with PH and SSRS. Two-way interactions in moderated multiple regression were used to test the moderating effect of education level and title on SSRS, SDS, and SAS. Results Our results indicate that the level of PH is influenced by the age, education, and title of a doctor. A physician's title is significantly and positively correlated with PH, but age and

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“…Second, given the one-time assessment of HPA axis reactivity to stress, we were unable to determine whether the effects of the various stressors on cortisol reactivity and the attenuation of these associations by psychological resources persist across time. As development continues, later experiences may alter the health trajectories that early experiences initially set in motion (Chiang, Chen, & Miller, 2018; Gouin, Caldwell, Woods, & Malarkey, 2017), making it important for future longitudinal studies to elucidate whether the current findings persist across time. Third, the clinical relevance of the study findings cannot be determined.…”

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Stress, Psychological Resources, and HPA and Inflammatory Reactivity During Late Adolescence

Chiang¹,

Bower

et al. 2018

Dev Psychopathol

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Psychosocial stress during childhood and adolescence is associated with alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and with heightened inflammation, both of which are implicated in poor health; however, factors that may protect against these effects relatively early in life are not well understood. Thus, we examined whether psychosocial resources protect against stress-related alterations in the HPA axis and heightened inflammation in a sample of 91 late adolescents. Participants completed measures of various stressors (major life events, daily interpersonal stress, early adversity), and psychosocial resources (mastery, optimism, self-esteem, and positive reappraisal). They also completed the Trier Social Stress Test and provided saliva and blood samples for the assessment of cortisol and interleukin-6 reactivity. Each of the stressors was associated with lower cortisol reactivity. Additionally, associations with major life events and daily stress were moderated by psychological resources, such that more life events and daily stress were associated with decreased HPA reactivity among adolescents with lower levels of psychological resources, but not among those with higher levels of psychological resources. This pattern of findings was observed only for cortisol reactivity and not for interleukin-6 reactivity. Findings suggest that psychological resources may counteract the effects of certain adversity-related decreases in cortisol reactivity.

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Midlife self-reported social support as a buffer against premature mortality risks associated with childhood abuse

Cited by 22 publications

References 57 publications

Effects of childhood trauma on adult moral decision-making: Clinical correlates and insights from bipolar disorder

Effects of childhood trauma on adult moral decision-making: Clinical correlates and insights from bipolar disorder

The relationship between psychological health and social support: Evidence from physicians in China

Stress, Psychological Resources, and HPA and Inflammatory Reactivity During Late Adolescence

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