ArticleChild abuse & neglect2021
The roles of attachment and emotion dysregulation in the association between childhood maltreatment and PTSD in an inner-city sample.
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- Systematic review and meta-analysis: do best-evidenced trauma-focused interventions for children and young people with PTSD lead to changes in social and interpersonal domains?European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Pooled it
- Adverse childhood experiences, exposure to the World Trade Center attacks, and chronic symptoms of depression, PTSD, and unhealthy drinking.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Role of attachment style in the association between childhood adversities and non-suicidal self-injury among young adults: a multigroup structural equation study.General psychiatry · 2025Article
- Emotional regulation mechanisms regarding posttraumatic and depressive symptoms in maltreated youth.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A cluster analysis of attachment styles in patients with borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder and ADHD.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2024Article
- Do insecure adult attachment styles mediate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and violent behavior?Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Associations of maternal emotion regulation with child white matter connectivity in Black American mother-child dyads.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- An Intra-Interpersonal Vulnerability Model for Understanding Trauma Conditions: Factors in the Development and Maintenance of PTSD and Complex PTSD.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundMost people will experience a traumatic event in their lifetime, but only a subset (<10%) will develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
objectiveTo facilitate prevention and intervention of PTSD, it is important to understand how risk and resilience factors interact with one another to explain individual differences in risk for PTSD, especially in underprivileged groups, who often experience greater burden of trauma and PTSD.
methodThe current study utilized multiple and moderated regression to examine the relation between childhood maltreatment and adulthood PTSD risk in the context of various attachment patterns and emotion dysregulation in a sample (n = 856) of mostly low-income, African American participants.
resultsModeration analysis indicated that the strongest association between self-reported childhood maltreatment and PTSD symptoms was manifest in participants reporting the highest levels of both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance (b = 0.22, 95% CI [0.15, 0.29], p < .001), whereas, among those low on both these dimensions (i.e., more securely attached participants), there was no significant association between childhood maltreatment and current PTSD (b = 0.07, 95% CI [-0.01, 0.14], p = .07). Separately, multiple regression predicting current PTSD symptoms revealed an effect size for the two attachment dimensions similar to that of emotion dysregulation, while controlling for childhood maltreatment.
conclusionsThese findings suggest more secure attachment may buffer against the deleterious effects of childhood maltreatment, and both attachment difficulties and emotion dysregulation serve as robust correlates of adulthood PTSD.
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