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ArticleJournal of religion and health2024

Do Religion and Spirituality Buffer the Effect of Childhood Trauma on Depressive Symptoms? Examination of a South Asian Cohort from the USA.

Laura Upenieks, Blake Victor Kent, Megha Nagaswami, Yue Gu, Alka M Kanaya, Alexandra E Shields

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Laura UpenieksDepartment of Sociology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97326, Waco, TX, 76798, USA. laura_upenieks@baylor.edu.
Blake Victor KentDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Megha NagaswamiDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Yue GuHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Alka M KanayaSchool of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Alexandra E ShieldsHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR001872 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI COLLARD, HAROLD R, JACOBY, VANESSA · 2016 to 2025
$112.1M
UCSF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTEUL1RR024131 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI JOHNSTON, S. CLAIBORNE · 2006 to 2011
$111.2M
UCSF Nutrition Obesity Research CenterP30DK098722 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHRISTIAN VAISSE · 2015 to 2026
$14.6M
Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in AmericaR01HL093009 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KANAYA, ALKA M. · 2010 to 2018
$5.4M
Social and Cultural Influences on Cardiovascular Risk in South AsiansR01HL120725 · NHLBI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KANDULA, NAMRATHA R · 2014 to 2017
$2.6M
Ectopic fat and atherosclerosis in South AsiansK24HL112827 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KANAYA, ALKA M. · 2013 to 2022
$1.2M
John Templeton Foundation 59607National Institute of Health 1R01HL093009National Institute of Health 2R01HL093009National Institute of Health P30DK098722.National Institute of Health R01HL120725National Institute of Health UL1RR024131National Institute of Health UL1TR001872NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001872NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024131NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL112827NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL093009NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL120725NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK098722
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Abstract

Asian Americans have been identified as a racial group that is disproportionately affected by childhood trauma. The goal of this study was  to assess if religion/spirituality moderate the effects of childhood trauma on adult depressive symptoms among a sample of South Asians in the USA. Our analysis drew from the study on stress, spirituality, and health (SSSH) questionnaire fielded in the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study (n = 990) during 2016-2018. A series of regression models with multiplicative interaction terms were conducted. Emotional neglect, emotional abuse, and physical neglect were associated with higher depressive symptoms. Higher religious attendance and negative religious coping techniques were found to exacerbate this relationship. There were two findings conditional on gender. Among men, gratitude and positive religious coping also exacerbated the relationship between childhood trauma and depressive symptoms. Negative religious coping also exacerbated the association between childhood trauma and depressive symptoms for women. This is the first community-based study of US South Asians to consider the association between various forms of childhood trauma and depressive symptom outcomes. South Asians remain an understudied group in the religion and health literature, and this study sheds light on the important differences in the function and effectiveness of religion/spirituality for those faced with early life trauma.

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AsianDepressionSpiritualityAdaptation, PsychologicalAdultAgedCohort StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedReligion and PsychologySurveys and QuestionnairesUnited StatesChildhood traumaDepressionReligious attendanceReligious copingSouth AsiansUSA

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PMCPMC11708237

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