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- Title
Reported history of childhood trauma and stress‐related vulnerability: Associations with emotion regulation, executive functioning, daily hassles and pre‐sleep arousal.
- Authors
Tinajero, Ruben; Williams, Paula G.; Cribbet, Matthew R.; Rau, Holly K.; Silver, Michelle A.; Bride, Daniel L.; Suchy, Yana
- Abstract
Childhood trauma is associated with poor health outcomes in adulthood. Mechanisms for these associations are not well understood because past studies have focused predominantly on populations that have already developed physical and mental health problems. The present study examined the association between childhood trauma and stress‐related vulnerability factors in a healthy adult sample (n = 79; 68% female, mean age = 27.5, SD = 6.5). Emotion regulation difficulties were examined as a potential mediator. Participants completed baseline laboratory assessments of reported childhood trauma, emotion regulation difficulties, prior month sleep quality, baseline impedance cardiography and behavioural tests of executive functioning (EF) and a three‐day experience sampling assessment protocol that included sleep diary, reported and objective pre‐sleep arousal, daily hassles and reported EF difficulties. Reported history of childhood abuse was significantly associated with difficulties in emotion regulation, self‐report and objective pre‐sleep arousal, diary‐assessed sleep quality, daily hassles and reported EF difficulties. Reported history of childhood neglect was associated with greater pre‐sleep arousal and poorer EF‐behavioural control. Emotion regulation difficulties mediated the relationship between childhood abuse and reported pre‐sleep arousal, daily hassles and reported EF difficulties. In conclusion, history of childhood trauma is associated with a variety of stress‐related vulnerability factors in healthy adults that may be viable early intervention targets.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGY of adult child abuse victims; CARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; SELF-control; SELF-evaluation; SLEEP disorders; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; WOUNDS &; injuries; EXECUTIVE function; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SLEEP hygiene; ADULTS
- Publication
Stress & Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress, 2020, Vol 36, Issue 4, p405
- ISSN
1532-3005
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/smi.2938