Open Access<p>Childhood Maltreatment, Negative Self-Referential Processing, and Depressive Symptoms During Stress</p>
Author(s) -
Ellen Jopling,
Alison Tracy,
Joelle LeMoult
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychology research and behavior management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1179-1578
DOI - 10.2147/prbm.s231505
Subject(s) - neglect , psychological abuse , sexual abuse , physical abuse , psychology , stressor , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , child abuse , depressive symptoms , poison control , suicide prevention , psychiatry , developmental psychology , medicine , cognition , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
Researchers have documented that the impact of childhood maltreatment on later symptoms of depression differs depending on the type(s) of maltreatment experienced, with emotional abuse and neglect being more likely than other forms of childhood maltreatment to increase the risk for depression. It is possible that emotional abuse and neglect are more likely to increase the risk for depression because they promote the development of negative self-referential processing (SRP), but this has not yet been tested empirically. The current study was designed to examine whether negative SRP mediated the association between different forms of childhood maltreatment and symptoms of depression during a time of stress.