The relationship between childhood trauma and the severity of adulthood depression and anxiety symptoms in a clinical sample: The mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies

Huh, Hyu Jung; Kim, Kyung Hee; Lee, Hee-Kyung; Chae, Jeong‐Ho

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2017.02.009

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“…Our results also indicate that childhood trauma aggravates the severity of depression, which is consistent with previous findings [15,16]. In addition, childhood trauma has been reported to cause emotional dysregulation [15,17,18], as also found in the present study. However, there are no previous reports of either emotional dysregulation or childhood trauma influencing the chronotype.…”

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“…Many studies have found childhood trauma to have robust negative impacts on clinical outcomes such as earlier age at onset, more severe type, more mood episodes, psychotic episodes, suicide attempts, mixed symptoms or episodes, comorbidity of substance abuse or dependence, and worse life functioning in mood disorder [12][13][14]. Our results also indicate that childhood trauma aggravates the severity of depression, which is consistent with previous findings [15,16]. In addition, childhood trauma has been reported to cause emotional dysregulation [15,17,18], as also found in the present study.…”

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Chronotype Is Associated with Emotional Dysregulation Influenced by Childhood Trauma: A Retrospective Study

Park

2019

Chronobiol Med

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The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships among childhood trauma, emotional dysregulation, and circadian preference in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Methods: This study included 107 outpatients aged between 20 and 65 years who met the criteria of the fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for MDD on their medical records. The subjects were divided into morningness, intermediate, and eveningness groups according to their chronotype based on the Korean version of the Composite Scale of Morningness (K-CSM). All of the patients were evaluated using the Korean version of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (K-MDQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Childhood traumatic events were evaluated using the Korean version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (K-CTQ). Results: Comparing the demographic and clinical variables revealed that the mean age and the emotional abuse (EA), total BDI, and total K-MDQ scores differed significantly among the three groups. The total K-CSM score was negatively correlated with the total K-MDQ, K-CTQ, EA, and emotional neglect scores. The K-MDQ score was positively correlated with the total K-CTQ, EA, and PA scores. Linear regression analyses were performed to test whether childhood trauma was driving the association with emotional dysregulation (using K-MDQ), and whether emotional dysregulation was driving the association with eveningness (using K-CSM). Both higher EA and total BDI scores were independently associated with a higher K-MDQ score. A higher K-MDQ score was also independently associated with a lower K-CSM score (toward eveningness). Conclusion: The findings of this study support that childhood trauma influences emotional dysregulation, which in turn leads to a circadian preference toward eveningness. It can therefore be assumed that emotional dysregulation mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and eveningness.

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Chronotype Is Associated with Emotional Dysregulation Influenced by Childhood Trauma: A Retrospective Study

Park

2019

Chronobiol Med

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“…However, traumatic experiences during childhood (e.g., abuse or neglect) are reported to be one of the most important factors in the development of depression and poor self-esteem (Finzi-Dottan and Karu 2006;Heim et al 2009;Ruyan et al 2002). Especially emotionally abused or neglected individuals develop increased vulnerability to depression and low self-esteem (Kuo et al 2011) because of their cognitive emotion dysregulation (Huh et al 2017).…”

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Childhood Emotional Trauma and Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Emerging Adults: A Multiple Mediation Model of the Role of Problematic Social Media Use and Psychopathology

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Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Research suggests that a small minority of social media users experience problems as a result of their online use. The purpose of the present study was to examine the association of cyberbullying perpetration and problematic social media use with childhood emotional trauma, Cluster B (narcissistic, histrionic, antisocial, and borderline) personality traits, dissociative experiences (DEs), depression, and self-esteem in a nonclinical undergraduate sample. A total of 344 university students volunteered to complete a questionnaire that included measures on the aforementioned dimensions. Thirty-eight percent of the participants had emotional neglect and 27% had emotional abuse, while 44% of them demonstrated at least one cyberbullying perpetration behavior. Results indicated that cyberbullying perpetrators had higher scores on problematic social media use, dissociative experiences, Cluster B traits, depression and childhood emotional trauma, and lower on self-esteem. Path analysis demonstrated that, while adjusting for gender and age, childhood emotional trauma was directly and indirectly associated with cyberbullying perpetration via Cluster B traits. Moreover, depression and dissociation were directly associated with problematic social media use. The findings of this study emphasize the important direct role of childhood emotional trauma and pathological personality traits on cyberbullying perpetration.

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“…The variable symptoms of depression show that it is a heterogeneous disorder [24], which is caused by a variety of risk factors. The extensive epigenetic research repeatedly demonstrates the far-reaching effects of early life trauma linked to depression in adulthood with presence of genetic vulnerability [25][26][27].…”

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Childhood trauma: a risk for major depression in patients with psoriasis

Erfanian

2018

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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INTRODUCTION:A history of childhood trauma is an important determinant for understanding the development of psychiatric and physical disorders. The chronic inflammatory disease, psoriasis, has been reported to be affected by childhood psychological stressors. Early life stress is also a well-known contributor to major depression. The current study aims to clarify a possible association between levels and types of childhood trauma with psoriasis severity and major depression. METHOD: Sixty-four patients diagnosed with mild-to-severe psoriasis (male = 27, mean age = 52.51 ± 14.72 years and female = 37, mean age = 42.76 ± 14.45 years, age range = 21-77) were admitted to our study between April 2014 and September 2014. For the diagnosis of psoriasis, the single most recently developed lesion was examined dermoscopically and histopathologically. We evaluated the history of childhood trauma with the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and diagnosis of major depression with the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI 5.0.0 current). The participants were scanned for their severity of psoriasis with Psoriasis Area and Severity Index 75 (PASI 75). Initially, the data were checked for normality using Kolmogorov-Smirnov/Shapiro-Wilk's tests, histograms, and probability plots. Because normality of the data could not be assumed, we evaluated childhood trauma subscales and psoriasis by running Kendell's tau-b correlation coefficients for bivariate comparisons. Mann-Whitney U test was conducted to assess the differences in childhood trauma severity of each subscale between two groups of depressed and nondepressed patients with psoriasis. Ultimately, we ran chi-square analysis to evaluate the association between gender and depression. RESULTS: Emotional (0.325), physical (0.614), sexual (0.963) abuse, and emotional (0.331) neglect were positively correlated with higher severity of psoriasis (p < .01). Subsequently, emotional (U = 372, p = .43), physical (U = 387, p = .049), sexual (U = 297, p = .0005) abuse, emotional (U = 299.5, p = .001), and physical U = 372, p = .031) neglect were significantly higher in psoriasis patients with depression compared to non-depressed (p < .05). CONCLUSION:The findings of the current study underline the relationship between childhood trauma and major depression, as well as childhood trauma and psoriasis. The increased level of emotional, physical, sexual abuse, and emotional neglect was linked to elevated severity of psoriasis. Likewise, all childhood trauma subtypes appeared to be more severe in the group of psoriasis patients with major depression. Investigation of childhood traumatic experiences, and major depression in individuals with psoriasis, the screening of depressed patients for psoriasis, and the cross-referencing of the outcome can be expected to provide remarkable findings, new approaches for diagnosis and treatment, as well as implications for promulgating new legislation.

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The relationship between childhood trauma and the severity of adulthood depression and anxiety symptoms in a clinical sample: The mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies

Cited by 196 publications

References 49 publications

Chronotype Is Associated with Emotional Dysregulation Influenced by Childhood Trauma: A Retrospective Study

Chronotype Is Associated with Emotional Dysregulation Influenced by Childhood Trauma: A Retrospective Study

Childhood Emotional Trauma and Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Emerging Adults: A Multiple Mediation Model of the Role of Problematic Social Media Use and Psychopathology

Childhood trauma: a risk for major depression in patients with psoriasis

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