ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
Trauma and Depression among North Korean Refugees: The Mediating Effect of Negative Cognition.
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- Identifying the critical time points for mental health of asylum seekers and refugees in high-income countries.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2019Pooled it
- Health Resilience and Inequality in Healthcare Utilization: A Longitudinal Comparison Between North Korean Refugees and South Korean Residents.Journal of migration and health · 2026Article
- Emotional abuse mediated by negative automatic thoughts impacts functional connectivity during adolescence.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
- North Korean defectors with PTSD and complex PTSD show alterations in default mode network resting-state functional connectivity.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Biological, Psychological, and Social Determinants of Depression: A Review of Recent Literature.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Reciprocal Prediction between Impulsivity and Problematic Internet Use among North Korean Refugee Youths in South Korea by Gender and Adverse Childhood Experience.Psychiatry investigation · 2021Article
- Factors Affecting Changes in the Mental Health of North Korean Refugee Youths: A Three-Year Follow-Up Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Health of Refugees and Migrants-Where Do We Stand and What Directions Should We Take?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- What Is It to Be Mentally Healthy from the North Korean Refugees' Perspective?: Qualitative Research on the Changes in Mental Health Awareness among the North Korean Refugees.Psychiatry investigation · 2018Article
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Abstract
North Korean refugees experience adaptation difficulties, along with a wide range of psychological problems. Accordingly, this study examined the associations between early traumatic experiences, negative automatic thoughts, and depression among young North Korean refugees living in South Korea. Specifically, we examined how different factors of negative automatic thoughts would mediate the relationship between early trauma and depressive symptoms. A total of 109 North Korean refugees aged 13-29 years were recruited from two alternative schools. Our path analysis indicated that early trauma was positively linked with thoughts of personal failure, physical threat, and hostility, but not with thoughts of social threat. The link with depressive symptoms was only significant for thoughts of personal failure. After removing all non-significant pathways, the model revealed that early traumatic experiences were positively associated with depressive symptoms (ß = 0.61, 95% CI = 0.48-0.73) via thoughts of personal failure (ß = 0.17, 95% CI = 0.08-0.28), as well as directly (ß = 0.44, 95% CI = 0.27-0.59). Interventions that target negative cognitions of personal failure may be helpful for North Korean refugees at risk of depression.
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