OPUS Toplum Araştırmaları Dergisi,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
22(1), P. 46 - 63
Published: Feb. 16, 2025
Numerous
factors
contribute
to
the
relationship
between
childhood
maltreatment
and
depressive
symptoms
in
later
life,
with
emotion
dysregulation
being
a
key
component.
This
study
explored
mediating
role
of
difficulties
regulation
irrational
beliefs
symptoms.
The
Childhood
Trauma
Questionnaire
(CTQ),
Beck
Depression
Inventory
(BDI),
Difficulties
Emotion
Regulation
Scale
(DERS-16),
Shortened
General
Attitude
Belief
(SGABS)
were
administered
total
354
participants
aged
18-61.
Structural
equation
modeling
(SEM)
was
employed
test
several
models.
initial
model
proposed
that
link
depression
would
be
mediated
by
beliefs.
results
indicated
did
not
fit
data
showed
no
significant
depression,
leading
its
removal
from
model.
In
subsequent
models,
subscales
CTQ
examined.
found
fully
mediate
emotional
abuse,
sexual
physical
while
partially
neglect
subscales.
Results
highlight
importance
understanding
multiple
mechanisms
involved
adult
symptomatology.
Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
4(3), P. 100294 - 100294
Published: Feb. 18, 2024
Previous
evidence
informed
by
the
toxic
stress
model
suggests
that
higher
cortisol
causes
anxiety
and
major
depression,
but
clinical
success
is
lacking.
To
clarify
role
of
cortisol,
we
used
Mendelian
randomization
to
estimate
its
associations
with
anxiety,
neuroticism,
leveraging
largest
available
genome-wide
association
studies
including
from
Psychiatric
Genomics
Consortium,
UK
Biobank,
FinnGen.
Psychological Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
35(9), P. 1062 - 1073
Published: Aug. 14, 2024
Early-life
adversity
increases
the
risk
of
health
problems.
Interventions
supporting
protective
and
responsive
caregiving
offer
a
promising
approach
to
attenuating
adversity-induced
changes
in
stress-sensitive
biomarkers.
This
study
tested
whether
participation
an
evidence-based
dyadic
psychosocial
intervention,
child-parent
psychotherapy
(CPP),
was
related
lower
epigenetic
age
acceleration,
trauma-sensitive
biomarker
accelerated
biological
aging
that
is
associated
with
later
impairment,
sample
children
trauma
histories.
Within
this
quasi-experimental,
repeated-measures
study,
we
examined
acceleration
at
baseline
postintervention
low-income
receiving
CPP
treatment
(
Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
27(11), P. 1085 - 1098
Published: July 25, 2023
Patch
foraging
is
a
near-ubiquitous
behaviour
across
the
animal
kingdom
and
characterises
many
decision-making
domains
encountered
by
humans.
We
review
how
disposition
to
explore
in
adolescence
may
reflect
evolutionary
conditions
under
which
hunter-gatherers
foraged
for
resources.
propose
that
neurocomputational
mechanisms
responsible
reward
processing,
learning,
cognitive
control
facilitate
transition
from
exploratory
strategies
exploitative
adulthood
-
where
individuals
capitalise
on
known
This
developmental
be
disrupted
psychopathology,
as
there
emerging
evidence
of
biases
explore/exploit
choices
mental
health
problems.
Explore/exploit
an
informative
marker
development
future
research
should
consider
this
feature
target
clinical
intervention.
Development and Psychopathology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 31
Published: April 8, 2024
Growing
evidence
supports
the
unique
pathways
by
which
threat
and
deprivation,
two
core
dimensions
of
adversity,
confer
risk
for
youth
psychopathology.
However,
extent
to
these
differ
in
their
direct
associations
with
psychopathology
remains
unclear.
The
primary
aim
this
preregistered
meta-analysis
was
synthesize
between
threat,
internalizing,
externalizing,
trauma-specific
Because
is
proposed
be
directly
linked
socioemotional
development,
we
hypothesized
that
magnitude
would
larger
than
those
deprivation.
We
conducted
a
search
peer-reviewed
articles
English
using
PubMed
PsycINFO
databases
through
August
2022.
Studies
assessed
both
deprivation
used
previously
validated
measures
were
included.
One
hundred
twenty-seven
included
synthesis
(
American Journal of Epidemiology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
193(11), P. 1541 - 1552
Published: May 17, 2024
Abstract
Childhood
adversity
is
an
important
risk
factor
for
adverse
health
across
the
life
course.
Epigenetic
modifications,
such
as
DNA
methylation
(DNAm),
are
a
hypothesized
mechanism
linking
to
disease
susceptibility.
Yet,
few
studies
have
determined
whether
adversity-related
DNAm
alterations
causally
related
future
outcomes
or
if
their
developmental
timing
plays
role
in
these
relationships.
Here,
we
used
2-sample
mendelian
randomization
obtain
stronger
causal
inferences
about
association
between
adversity-associated
loci
development
(ie,
birth,
childhood,
adolescence,
and
young
adulthood)
24
mental,
physical,
behavioral
outcomes.
We
identified
particularly
strong
associations
attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder,
depression,
obsessive-compulsive
suicide
attempts,
asthma,
coronary
artery
disease,
chronic
kidney
disease.
More
of
were
birth
childhood
DNAm,
whereas
adolescent
adulthood
more
closely
linked
mental
health.
also
had
primarily
risk-suppressing
relationships
with
outcomes,
suggesting
that
might
reflect
compensatory
buffering
mechanisms
against
rather
than
acting
solely
indicator
risk.
Together,
our
results
suggest
both
physical
impacts
differences
emerging
earlier
development.
Clinical Psychological Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12(6), P. 1111 - 1126
Published: Jan. 11, 2024
Adversity
that
exhibits
continuity
across
the
life
course
has
long-term
detrimental
effects
on
physical
and
mental
health.
Using
920
participants
from
Dunedin
Study,
we
tested
following
hypotheses:
(a)
Children
(ages
3–15)
who
experienced
adversity
would
also
tend
to
experience
in
adulthood
32–45),
(2)
interim
personality
traits
young
18–26)
help
account
for
this
longitudinal
association.
more
tended
stressful
events
as
adults,
β
=
0.11,
95%
confidence
interval
[CI]
[0.04,
0.18],
p
.002.
Negative
emotionality—particularly
its
subfacet
alienation,
characterized
by
mistrust
of
others—helped
explain
childhood-to-midlife
association
(indirect
effect:
0.06,
CI
0.09],
<
.001).
Results
were
robust
adjustment
sex,
socioeconomic
origins,
childhood
IQ,
preschool
temperament,
other
young-adult
traits.
Prevention
early
treatment
negative
emotionality
may
reduce
vulnerability
later
stress
thereby
promote
health
aging
adults.
JCPP Advances,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
4(3)
Published: Feb. 22, 2024
In
the
excitement
about
genomics,
it
is
easy
to
lose
sight
of
one
most
important
findings
from
behavioural
genetics:
At
least
half
variance
psychopathology
caused
by
environmental
effects
that
are
not
shared
children
growing
up
in
same
family,
which
includes
error
measurement.
However,
a
30-year
search
for
systematic
causes
nonshared
environment
line-up
usual
suspects,
especially
parenting,
has
identified
culprits.
Deutsches Ärzteblatt international,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Dec. 22, 2023
Childhood
trauma
is
associated
with
somatic
and
mental
illness
in
adulthood.
The
strength
of
the
association
varies
as
a
function
age,
sex,
type
trauma.
Pertinent
studies
to
date
have
mainly
focused
on
individual
diseases.
In
this
study,
we
investigate
between
childhood
multiplicity
illnesses