ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2024
Childhood Adversity and Emerging Psychotic Experiences: A Network Perspective.
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- A systematic review of studies using network analysis to assess dynamics of psychotic-like experiences in community samples.Psychological medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Early Parenting and Infant-Parent Attachment: Developmental Origins of Psychotic Experiences.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Stress and delusions in postgraduate medical students: the mediating role of anxiety and depression and the moderating role of trait impulsivity.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Childhood adversity and social anxiety among college students: the mediating roles of personal growth initiative and problematic social media use.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Network analysis of relationships among psychopathology, cognitive function, and psychosocial functioning in independent samples of Chinese with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Loneliness in schizophrenia: Just loneliness.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Cognitive processes and pathways between social isolation, loneliness, and paranoia: findings from a cross-lagged network analysis of population-based data.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Predictors of psychotic experiences among adolescents with obsessive-compulsive symptoms: A data-driven machine learning approach.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Understanding Pathways from Cognitive Biases to the Risk of Psychosis: A Network Analysis Approach.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
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Abstract
background and hypothesisChildhood adversity is associated with a myriad of psychiatric symptoms, including psychotic experiences (PEs), and with multiple psychological processes that may all mediate these associations. STUDY
designUsing a network approach, the present study examined the complex interactions between childhood adversity, PEs, other psychiatric symptoms, and multiple psychological mediators (ie, activity-related and social stress, negative affect, loneliness, threat anticipation, maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation, attachment insecurity) in a general population, adolescent sample (n = 865, age 12-20, 67% female). STUDY
resultsCentrality analyses revealed a pivotal role of depression, anxiety, negative affect, and loneliness within the network and a bridging role of threat anticipation between childhood adversity and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation. By constructing shortest path networks, we found multiple existing paths between different categories of childhood adversity and PEs, with symptoms of general psychopathology (ie, anxiety, hostility, and somatization) as the main connective component. Sensitivity analyses confirmed the robustness and stability of the networks. Longitudinal analysis in a subsample with Wave 2 data (n = 161) further found that variables with higher centrality (ie, depression, negative affect, and loneliness) better predicted follow-up PEs.
conclusionsPathways linking childhood adversity to PEs are complex, with multifaceted psychological and symptom-symptom interactions. They underscore the transdiagnostic, heterotypic nature of mental ill-health in young people experiencing PEs, in agreement with current clinical recommendations.
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