ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2012
Modelling the emergence of hallucinations: early acquired vulnerabilities, proximal life stressors and maladaptive psychological processes.
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- The Relationship Between Trauma Exposure and Nonclinical Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2026Article
- A narrative review of psychological theories of post-traumatic stress disorder, voice hearing, and other psychotic symptoms.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2022Review
- Psychological processes mediating the association between developmental trauma and specific psychotic symptoms in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2021Article
- Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2014Review
- A community of one: social cognition and auditory verbal hallucinations.PLoS biology · 2013Review
- Childhood sexual trauma, cannabis use and psychosis: statistically controlling for pre-trauma psychosis and psychopathology.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2013Article
- Patterns of lifetime female victimisation and psychotic experiences: a study based on the UK Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2013Article
- A comprehensive review of auditory verbal hallucinations: lifetime prevalence, correlates and mechanisms in healthy and clinical individuals.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe study aimed to expand upon existing findings on the vulnerability to psychosis by examining synergistic models of hallucination emergence. Hypothesised vulnerability factors were separated into three stages of vulnerability; early acquired and enduring vulnerabilities (heredity, childhood trauma, early cannabis use), proximal life stressors (life hassles) and psychological appraisals/coping (metacognitions/experiential avoidance).
methodsParticipants were recruited to a non-clinical sample (N = 133) and a clinical sample of psychosis patients (N = 100).
resultsPath analyses in the non-clinical sample indicated that experiences of childhood emotional trauma, in combination with subsequent experiences of life hassles, best predicted vulnerability to both hallucinations in general and auditory hallucinations specifically. This pathway was partially mediated by negative metacognitions. The models were then replicated in the clinical sample, with two notable differences: (1) childhood sexual trauma replaced childhood emotional trauma as the best enduring predictor in the clinical model. (2) Experiential avoidance replaced metacognitions as the best cognitive predictor of hallucinations.
conclusionsThe study's findings highlighted how vulnerability to hallucinations can occur developmentally across time, with early acquired vulnerability factors, combining additively with more proximal day-to-day factors and cognitive style, to propel a person further towards the formation of hallucinations.
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