Childhood Maltreatment and Symptoms of Social Anxiety: Exploring the Role of Emotional Abuse, Neglect, and Cumulative Trauma

Nanda, Monica M.; Reichert, Elizabeth; Jones, Uchenna J.; Flannery-Schroeder, Ellen

doi:10.1007/s40653-015-0070-z

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“…SA was associated with an increased risk of pathological impulsivity and psychiatric disorders, including antisocial personality disorder and substance dependence (Braquehais et al, 2010 ), aggressive behavior and conduct disorder (Jonas et al, 2011 ). In contrast, individuals who had experienced other forms of childhood EA were more prone to developing depressive and anxiety disorders (Iffland et al, 2012 ; Nanda et al, 2016 ). Therefore, the effects of SA on an individual’s mental health may be different to those of physical or EA, and the specific mechanism underlying how this type of child maltreatment affects an individual’s behavior via variation of brain structure or function requires exploration as follow-up research.…”

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Gene-Gene-Environment Interactions of Serotonin Transporter, Monoamine Oxidase A and Childhood Maltreatment Predict Aggressive Behavior in Chinese Adolescents

Zhang

Ming

et al. 2017

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Gene-environment interactions that moderate aggressive behavior have been identified independently in the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene and monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA). The aim of the present study was to investigate epistasis interactions between MAOA-variable number tandem repeat (VNTR), 5-HTTlinked polymorphism (LPR) and child abuse and the effects of these on aggressive tendencies in a group of otherwise healthy adolescents. A group of 546 Chinese male adolescents completed the Child Trauma Questionnaire and Youth self-report of the Child Behavior Checklist. Buccal cells were collected for DNA analysis. The effects of childhood abuse, MAOA-VNTR, 5-HTTLPR genotypes and their interactive gene-gene-environmental effects on aggressive behavior were analyzed using a linear regression model. The effect of child maltreatment was significant, and a three-way interaction among MAOA-VNTR, 5-HTTLPR and sexual abuse (SA) relating to aggressive behaviors was identified. Chinese male adolescents with high expression of the MAOA-VNTR allele and 5-HTTLPR “SS” genotype exhibited the highest aggression tendencies with an increase in SA during childhood. The findings reported support aggression being a complex behavior involving the synergistic effects of gene-gene-environment interactions.

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Gene-Gene-Environment Interactions of Serotonin Transporter, Monoamine Oxidase A and Childhood Maltreatment Predict Aggressive Behavior in Chinese Adolescents

Zhang

Ming

et al. 2017

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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“…; DSM-IV ; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) disorder across all sociocultural samples (Kessler et al, 2010). A large body of literature has showed that childhood maltreatment may be specifically linked with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomology (Marshall-Berenz, Vujanovic, Bonn-Miller, Bernstein, & Zvolensky, 2010), depression (Khan et al, 2015), anxiety (Nanda, Reichert, Jones, & Flannery-Schroeder, 2016), and alcohol use disorders (Elliott et al, 2014).…”

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The Mediating Role of Distress Tolerance in the Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Mental Health Outcomes Among University Students

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Ross

Fletcher

et al. 2019

J Interpers Violence

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A wealth of empirical literature has documented that the experience of childhood maltreatment is related to an increased risk for the development of psychopathologies in adulthood. Empirical studies examining the factors that could possibly explain this relationship, however, remain sparse. The emerging literature on Distress Tolerance suggests that it could possibly act as an explanatory or mediating factor within this relationship. The current study therefore examined the mediating role of Distress Tolerance in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and psychopathology (PTSD, depression, anxiety and alcohol use) in adulthood in a university student population sample (N = 642). Results showed that childhood maltreatment was positively associated with caseness for all mental health outcomes under investigation. It was also found that individuals with higher levels of Distress Tolerance were less likely to experience adverse mental health outcomes. The results of the mediation analysis indicated that the exposure to childhood maltreatment remained associated with elevated risk for being in the symptomatic group across mental health outcomes and that Distress Tolerance significantly mediated this relationship. These results provide insight into the relationship between childhood maltreatment and mental ill-health later in life, highlighting the importance of considering Distress Tolerance as a potential risk and resilience factor in this relationship.

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“…Findings showed that emotional abuse [5, 9] and emotional neglect [5] were more often reported by subjects suffering from SAD in comparison with healthy controls. Moreover, emotional abuse and emotional neglect have been significantly associated with greater SAD symptom severity [4, 5, 7, 8], even in non-clinical samples [10, 11]. One study [5] further found that emotional abuse and neglect were linked to greater severity of depressive symptoms.…”

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Child maltreatment, peer victimization, and social anxiety in adulthood: a cross-sectional study in a treatment-seeking sample

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BackgroundChildhood adversities, especially emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and peer victimization are considered to be crucial risk factors for social anxiety disorder (SAD). We investigated whether particular forms of retrospectively recalled childhood adversities are specifically associated with SAD in adulthood or whether we find similar links in other anxiety or depressive disorders.MethodsPrevalences of adversities assessed with the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and a questionnaire of stressful social experiences (FBS) were determined in N = 1091 outpatients. Adversity severities among patients with SAD only (n = 25), specific phobia only (n = 18), and generalized anxiety disorder only (n = 19) were compared. Differences between patients with anxiety disorders only (n = 62) and depressive disorders only (n = 239) as well as between SAD with comorbid depressive disorders (n = 143) and SAD only were tested.ResultsNone of the adversity types were found to be specifically associated with SAD and severities did not differ among anxiety disorders but patients with depressive disorders reported more severe emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse than patients with anxiety disorders. SAD patients with a comorbid depressive disorder also reported more severe adversities across all types compared to SAD only.ConclusionFindings indicate that particular forms of recalled childhood adversities are not specifically associated with SAD in adulthood. Previously established links with SAD may be better explained by comorbid depressive symptoms.

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Childhood Maltreatment and Symptoms of Social Anxiety: Exploring the Role of Emotional Abuse, Neglect, and Cumulative Trauma

Cited by 29 publications

References 40 publications

Gene-Gene-Environment Interactions of Serotonin Transporter, Monoamine Oxidase A and Childhood Maltreatment Predict Aggressive Behavior in Chinese Adolescents

Gene-Gene-Environment Interactions of Serotonin Transporter, Monoamine Oxidase A and Childhood Maltreatment Predict Aggressive Behavior in Chinese Adolescents

The Mediating Role of Distress Tolerance in the Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Mental Health Outcomes Among University Students

Child maltreatment, peer victimization, and social anxiety in adulthood: a cross-sectional study in a treatment-seeking sample

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