Kadın Üniversite Öğrencilerinde Çocukluk Çağı Travmaları ile Kendine Zarar Verme Davranışları, Depresyon, Psikoform ve Somatoform Dissosiyasyon Arasındaki İlişkilerin İncelenmesi

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the predictive role of childhood traumas on self-harming behaviours, depression, psychoform, and somatoform dissociation in female university students. This study was conducted with 314 female university students. It was evaluated that the differentiation of psychoform dissociation as an independent variable, varied based on negative or positive taxonomy in terms of dependent variables as well as the predictive effect of childhood traumas. It was found that childhood trauma predicted psychoform dissociation experienced in adulthood, and emotional abuse predicted amnestic dissociation, absorption and psychoform dissociation. The findings of the study differed from other studies, especially with clinical samples, and childhood traumas were positively correlated with psychoform dissociation and negatively associated with somatoform dissociation. The findings also emphasise the importance of certain correlations between childhood trauma and self-harming behaviours in a non-clinical sample group, such as female university students, as well as clinical samples.

The relationship between childhood maltreatment and self-harm: the mediating roles of alexithymia, dissociation, internalizing and posttraumatic symptoms

“…Several studies in the literature portray the correlation between CM, psychoform dissociation and somatoform dissociation, and it can be certainly said that exposure to CM can be considered one of the most basic etiological elements of psychoform and somatoform dissociation (Kate et al, 2021 ; Nijenhuis, 2001 ; Nijenhuis et al, 2003 ). The present findings indicate that psychoform and somatoform dissociative symptoms add considerable risk for maltreated adolescents to engage in self-harm, which is in line with the results of earlier studies (Ermağan-Çağlar et al, 2021 ; Swannell et al, 2012 ). With respect to psychological dissociation, Nock and Prinstein ( 2004 , p. 886) have noted that self-harm might play the role of an ‘autonomic positive reinforcement’.…”