ArticleEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2022
To what extent do social support and mastery mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and depression? A sequential causal mediation analysis.
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- Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect: a Burden of Proof study.Nature human behaviour · 2025Pooled it
- Health effects associated with exposure to intimate partner violence against women and childhood sexual abuse: a burden of proof study.Nature medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- The Relationship Between Hopelessness and Childhood Traumas in Men With Methamphetamine Use Disorder: The Mediating Role of Perceived Social Support.Psychiatry investigation · 2026Article
- The impact of social support on academic burnout among medical students: the mediating effects of anxiety and depression, and the role of urban-rural differences.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Childhood maltreatment and adolescent non-suicidal self-injury: cross-sectional conditional process and network analyses of depressive symptoms and physical activity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences, psychological distress, and the role of locus of control.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2026Article
- Exploring the Interrelationships Among Childhood Maltreatment, Suicidal Ideation, and Social Support in Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizophrenia: A Network Analysis of Distinct Mental Disorders.Alpha psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Social support and depressive symptoms: the role of childhood maltreatment and brain activity in a moderated mediation model.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Differential effects of lifetime stressors on major depressive disorder severity: a longitudinal community-based cohort study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2024Article
- Parental depression moderates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and the recognition of children expressions of emotions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Shared and distinct structural brain networks related to childhood maltreatment and social support: connectome-based predictive modeling.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Article
- Sense of mastery in first-episode psychosis-a one-year follow-up study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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aimsThis study aimed to examine the independent roles of various childhood maltreatment (CM) subtypes in the development of depression; quantify the joint mediation effect of social support and mastery in the association between subtypes of CM and depression and examine the additional contribution of mastery beyond the effect that is operating through social support to this relationship.
methodsData analysed were from the Zone d'Épidémiologie Psychiatrique du Sud-Ouest de Montréal, an ongoing longitudinal population-based study. In total, 1351 participants with complete information on the studied variables were included. The propensity score matching and inverse-probability weighted regression adjustment estimation methods were used to minimise the potential confounding in the relationship between CM and major depression. We then used inverse odds ratio-weighted estimation to estimate the direct effects of maltreatment and indirect effects of social support and mastery.
resultsWe found that exposures to all maltreatment subtypes increased the risk of subsequent depression. The joint mediating effect of social support and mastery explained 37.63-46.97% of the association between different maltreatment subtypes and depression. The contribution of these two mediators differed by maltreatment subtypes, with social support being the major contributor to the mediating effect.
conclusionsThe findings of the study not only provide scientific evidence on the importance of psychosocial attributes in the development of major depression but also suggest that prevention and invention strategies should focus on these psychosocial attributes to effectively break the vicious cycle of CM on major depression.
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