Trial reportPloS one2019
Linking childhood emotional abuse and depressive symptoms: The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal problems.
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 170 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interpersonal Problems and Their Mental Health Correlates: A Meta-Analytic Review.Journal of clinical psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Influencing factors of depressive symptoms among undergraduates: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Psychological Mediators of the Association Between Childhood Emotional Abuse and Depression: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Beyond Trauma Exposure and Symptoms: Preconception Transdiagnostic Vulnerability and Postpartum Outcomes in Healthy Women.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Childhood abuse and disordered eating behaviors in female college students: how does depression and anxiety come from?Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- The mediating effect of alexisomia between childhood abuse and depression/stress in a sample of Lebanese adults: A cross-sectional study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Latent profile analysis of psychological abuse and neglect and the relationship with depression and anxiety: a multicentre cross-sectional study in western Chinese adolescents.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- The moderating role of hippocampal volume in the association between emotional abuse and peer victimization in adolescents with major depressive disorder.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Childhood Abuse, Personality, and Depression: A Narrative Review.Alpha psychiatry · 2025Review
- Self-discontinuity in behavioral addictions: A psychodynamic framework.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Review
- Are we gatekeeping trauma? A conceptual model to expand criterion A for invisible, identity-based, and systemic traumas.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Review
- Why avoidance? The impact of childhood emotional abuse on social avoidance.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The mediating role of maladaptive perfectionism in the relationship between childhood trauma and depression.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences, inflammation, and depression: evidence of sex- and stressor specific effects in a nationally representative longitudinal sample of U.S. adolescents.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Association Between Childhood Emotional Maltreatment and Gratitude in Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Parent-Child Attachment.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Emotional Dysregulation, Hopelessness and Dysmorphophobic Concerns Among Hospitalized Patients with Autoimmune, Inflammatory, and Metabolic Skin Disorders.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- The influence of emotion dysregulation and perceived social support on the link between childhood emotional abuse and depressive symptoms in college students: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The impact of different adverse childhood experiences on the dimensions of emotional dysregulation in adults with major depression.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Impact of adverse childhood experiences on risk for internalizing psychiatric disorders in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis.Psychiatry research · 2024Article
1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Childhood abuse is a major public health problem that has been linked to depression in adulthood. Although different types of childhood abuse often co-occur, few studies have examined their unique impact on negative mental health outcomes. Most studies have focused solely on the consequences of childhood physical or sexual abuse; however, it has been suggested that childhood emotional abuse is more strongly related to depression. It remains unclear which underlying psychological processes mediate the effect of childhood emotional abuse on depressive symptoms. In a cross-sectional study in 276 female college students, multiple linear regression analyses were used to determine whether childhood emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse were independently associated with depressive symptoms, emotion dysregulation, and interpersonal problems. Subsequently, OLS regression analyses were used to determine whether emotion dysregulation and interpersonal problems mediate the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and depressive symptoms. Of all types of abuse, only emotional abuse was independently associated with depressive symptoms, emotion dysregulation, and interpersonal problems. The effect of childhood emotional abuse on depressive symptoms was mediated by emotion dysregulation and the following domains of interpersonal problems: cold/distant and domineering/controlling. The results of the current study indicate that detection and prevention of childhood emotional abuse deserves attention from Child Protective Services. Finally, interventions that target emotion regulation skills and interpersonal skills may be beneficial in prevention of depression.
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