The objective of this study is to examine the effect of recent adult sexual assault on current eating disorder symptoms when controlling for the effects of multiple forms of childhood abuse. A total of 489 undergraduate women completed the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire, and surveys regarding childhood abuse and sexual assault that had occurred in the previous three months. Approxima...

This study examined the influence of various forms of childhood abuse on basal cortisol levels in a sample of adults with Axis II personality disorders. Participants included 63 adults (n = 19 women) who provided basal plasma cortisol samples and completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Linear regression analyses that included all 5 subscales (ie, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional ab...

IMPORTANCE Research has linked childhood abuse to a variety of adult psychiatric problems, but little is known about associations of child abuse with adult mortality. OBJECTIVE To test associations of retrospective reports of physical and emotional abuse in childhood with all-cause mortality rates in adulthood. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS National sample of 6285 adults (aged 25-74 yea...

An Examination of the Relationships Among Childhood Trauma, Emotional Invalidation, and Adult Dissociation (April 2008) Christy Aleene Talbert Department of Psychology Texas A&M University Research Advisor: Dr. Leslie Morey Department of Psychology This study examined the association between childhood trauma and adult dissociative tendencies through analyses of the mediating and moderating effe...

PURPOSE This study examined whether recalled childhood parental emotional abuse and support were associated with emotional reactivity to network stress among middle-aged and older adults. DESIGN AND METHODS Hypotheses were tested by performing 2-level multilevel modeling analysis on 787 participants aged 33-83 who participated in the Daily Stress Project (2004-2009). RESULTS Adult daughters...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the health and economic burdens of child maltreatment in China. METHODS We did a systematic review for studies on child maltreatment in China using PubMed, Embase, PsycInfo, CINAHL-EBSCO, ERIC and the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure databases. We did meta-analyses of studies that met inclusion criteria to estimate the prevalence of child neglect and child physi...

OBJECTIVES Approximately one third of patients with non cardiac chest pain (NCCP) report a history of abuse, however no data exists on the prevalence of abuse among people with unexplained chest pain in the general population. We aimed to determine if there is a relationship between childhood sexual, physical, emotional abuse and unexplained chest pain, and to identify whether any potential rel...

BACKGROUND Adverse childhood experiences (e.g., physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect, exposure to domestic violence, parental discord, familial mental illness, incarceration and substance abuse) constitute a major public health problem in the United States. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) scale is a standardized measure that captures multiple developmental risk factors beyond s...