Childhood and adolescent trauma and dissociation

The mediating role of rumination, intrusive thoughts and negative affect

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ID21391772
AuthorsGabriel Ródenas‐Perea (0000-0003-0205-104X, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío Seville Spain), Elena Velasco‐Barbancho (0000-0002-0088-6126, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío Seville Spain), Salvador Perona Garcelán (0000-0002-7771-7857, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío Seville Spain, corresponding author), Juan Francisco Rodríguez Testal (0000-0002-7346-5656, Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment Department University of Seville Seville Spain), Cristina Senín‐Calderón (0000-0002-7604-8487, Department of Psychology University of Cadiz Cadiz Spain), Benedicto Crespo‐Facorro (0000-0003-0033-7132, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital University of Sevilla/ IBiS/ CIBERSAM Seville Spain), Miguel Ruíz-Veguilla (0000-0002-5790-7346, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital University of Sevilla/ IBiS/ CIBERSAM Seville Spain)
Year2023
Volume64
Issue2
Pages142-149
Publication date2023-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScandinavian Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-5564 • E-ISSN: 1467-9450
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sjop.12879
PMID36240326
OpenAlexW4306249822
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited39

Dissociation is a complex phenomenon which is present in a wide variety of psychiatric disorders and also in the general population. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between childhood and adolescent traumas and development of dissociative phenomena in a nonclinical population, emphasizing the potentially mediating role of rumination, intrusive thoughts and negative affect in a population with no psychiatric pathology in adulthood. The sample was comprised of 337 participants from the general population (58.8% women) with a mean age of 33.10 years ( SD : 14.08). They completed the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire (JVQ), the Ruminative Response Scale (RRS), the White Bear Suppression Scale (WBSI), the Dissociative Experience Scale, 2d ver. Rev. (DES‐II) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS‐21). The results supported the starting hypotheses showing a positive correlation between childhood and adolescent trauma and dissociation, and between childhood and adolescent trauma and rumination, intrusive thoughts and negative affect, and mediation of these variables between childhood and adolescent trauma and dissociative states. The relationship between trauma in early ages and dissociation in adulthood is complex. Although the design used in this study was cross‐sectional, the results are compatible with the starting hypothesis that rumination, intrusive thoughts and negative affect mediate this relationship

Affect (linguistics) · Anxiety · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Dissociation (chemistry) · Dissociative · Dissociative disorders · Dissociative Experiences Scale · Mediation · Population · Psychiatry · Rumination · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

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