ArticleJournal of clinical psychology2014
Stressful life events and depression symptoms: the effect of childhood emotional abuse on stress reactivity.
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- Depression in youths with early life adversity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Sex, early life adversity, and negative self-evaluation shape the association between negative life events and depressive symptoms in adolescence.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Experience of financial hardship and depression: a longitudinal population-based multi-state analysis.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Article
- Sex/Gender Differences in the Effects of Childhood Abuse on Future Risk of Depression: Longitudinal Evidence from the Global Flourishing Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effects of childhood trauma on depression and cognitive function in first-diagnosed, drug-naïve depressed patients: an observational case-control study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Observational
- Early-life stress sensitizes response to future stress: Evidence and mechanisms.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Review
- Dampening of positive affect partially accounts for the association between women's history of child maltreatment and current depressive symptoms.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- Childhood emotional maltreatment affects depression of adolescents with mood disorders: the mediating role of functions of non-suicidal self-injury.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveStressful life events are associated with an increase in depressive symptoms and the onset of major depression. Importantly, research has shown that the role of stress changes over the course of depression. The present study extends the current literature by examining the effects of early life stress on emotional reactivity to current stressors.
methodIn a multiwave study (N = 281, mean age = 18.76; 68% female), we investigated the proximal changes that occur in depressive symptoms when individuals are faced with life stress and whether a history of childhood emotional abuse moderates this relationship.
resultsResults support the stress sensitivity hypothesis for early emotional abuse history. Individuals with greater childhood emotional abuse severity experienced greater increases in depressive symptoms when confronted with current dependent stressors, controlling for childhood physical and sexual abuse.
conclusionsThis study highlights the importance of emotional abuse as an indicator for reactivity to stressful life events.
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