Poster #1 INSECURE ATTACHMENT STYLE MEDIATES THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY AND SUBCLINICAL PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS IN A NON-CLINICAL SAMPLE

Childhood abuse and psychotic experiences – evidence for mediation by adulthood adverse life events

“…In particular, there is a widely reported association between the experience of childhood abuse, such as physical and sexual trauma, and the occurrence of both psychotic disorder(Arseneault et al, 2011a, Mäkikyrö et al, 1998, Schreier et al, 2009)(summarized and reviewed in(Varese et al, 2012)) and low-level psychotic experiences (PEs)(Alemany et al, 2011, Morgan et al, 2013, Van Nierop et al, 2014). The mechanism for this relationship remains unclear(Kelleher et al, 2013b, Sheinbaum et al, 2012, Van Nierop et al, 2014), but does not appear to be explained by confounding by genetic(Arseneault et al, 2011b, Alemany et al, 2013) or socioeconomic factors(Varese et al, 2012), or by recall bias(Bonoldi et al, 2013). Furthermore, there are likely to be multiple causal pathways to psychosis, involving an array of factors acting over the life course(Morgan et al, 2010, Krieger, 1994).…”