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Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Psychotic-Like Symptoms and Stress Reactivity in Daily Life in Nonclinical Young Adults.
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- Unravelling Distress in Psychotic-Like Experiences: A Systematic Review of Non-Clinical Populations.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Childhood trauma and schizotypy in non-clinical samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Methodological Strategies for Ecological Momentary Assessment to Evaluate Mood and Stress in Adult Patients Using Mobile Phones: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Pooled it
- Bullying as an Adverse Childhood Experience?-State of the Art.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Obstacles to Seeking Help: Perceived Barriers and Stigma Towards Mental Health Treatment in College Students at Elevated Risk for Psychosis.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Genetic Differences in Reactivity to the Environment Impact Psychotic-Like and Affective Reactivity in Daily Life.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
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- Ruminative thinking mediates the effects of exposure to adverse life events on psychotic-like experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The role of stress phenotypes in understanding childhood adversity as a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychopathology.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Review
- Ethnoracial Variation in Risk for Psychotic Experiences.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- I don't understand how I feel: mediating role of impaired self-mentalizing in the relationship between childhood adversity and psychosis spectrum experiences.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- The moderating role of hair cortisol in the association of early and recent stress with stress-related phenotypes.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Empirically-derived dimensions of childhood adversity and cumulative risk: associations with measures of depression, anxiety, and psychosis-spectrum psychopathology.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Parenting and psychosis: An experience sampling methodology study investigating the inter-relationship between stress from parenting and positive psychotic symptoms.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
- Mediating role of impaired wisdom in the relation between childhood trauma and psychotic-like experiences in Chinese college students: a nationwide cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
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- Roles of participation in social activities in the association between adverse childhood experiences and health among older Japanese adults.SSM - population health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is increasing interest in elucidating the association of different childhood adversities with psychosis-spectrum symptoms as well as the mechanistic processes involved. This study used experience sampling methodology to examine (i) associations of a range of childhood adversities with psychosis symptom domains in daily life; (ii) whether associations of abuse and neglect with symptoms are consistent across self-report and interview methods of trauma assessment; and (iii) the role of different adversities in moderating affective, psychotic-like, and paranoid reactivity to situational and social stressors.
methodA total of 206 nonclinical young adults were administered self-report and interview measures to assess childhood abuse, neglect, bullying, losses, and general traumatic events. Participants received personal digital assistants that signaled them randomly eight times daily for one week to complete questionnaires about current experiences, including symptoms, affect, and stress.
resultsSelf-reported and interview-based abuse and neglect were associated with psychotic-like and paranoid symptoms, whereas only self-reported neglect was associated with negative-like symptoms. Bullying was associated with psychotic-like symptoms. Losses and general traumatic events were not directly associated with any of the symptom domains. All the childhood adversities were associated with stress reactivity in daily life. Interpersonal adversities (abuse, neglect, bullying, and losses) moderated psychotic-like and/or paranoid reactivity to situational and social stressors, whereas general traumatic events moderated psychotic-like reactivity to situational stress. Also, different interpersonal adversities exacerbated psychotic-like and/or paranoid symptoms in response to distinct social stressors. DISCUSSION: The present study provides a unique examination of how childhood adversities impact the expression of spectrum symptoms in the real world and lends support to the notion that stress reactivity is a mechanism implicated in the experience of reality distortion in individuals exposed to childhood trauma. Investigating the interplay between childhood experience and current context is relevant for uncovering potential pathways to the extended psychosis phenotype.
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