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Maltreatment Subtypes, Depressed Mood, and Anhedonia: A Prospective Study with Adolescents
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December 27 2018
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Source: Psychol Trauma. 11(7):704-712
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Alternative Title:Psychol Trauma
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Description:Objective:
Maltreatment exposure is a robust predictor of adolescent depression. Yet, despite this well-documented association, few studies have simultaneously examined how maltreatment subtypes relate to qualitatively distinct depressive symptoms. The present multi-wave, longitudinal study addressed this gap in the literature by examining how different maltreatment subtypes independently impact depressed mood and anhedonia over time in a diverse adolescent sample.
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673 adolescents (AgeMean=14.83; AgeSD=0.66; 57.1% female; 32.8% Hispanic, 30.4% Caucasian; 25.0% African-American) completed self-report inventories for child maltreatment and annual self-report measures of depressed mood and anhedonia over the course of six years. We used latent growth curve modeling to test how maltreatment-exposure predicted anhedonia and depressed mood, and whether these relations differed as a function of sex and/or race/ethnicity.
Results:
Overall, both emotional abuse (p < .001) and neglect (p = .002) predicted levels of depressed mood over time, while only emotional neglect predicted levels (p < .001) and trajectories (p=.001) of anhedonia. Physical and sexual abuse did not predict depressive symptoms once accounting for emotional abuse and neglect (p = ns). These findings were largely invariant across sex and race.
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Findings suggest that the consequences of emotional neglect may be especially problematic in adolescence due to its impact on both depressed mood and anhedonia, and that emotional abuse’s association with depression is best explained via symptoms of depressed mood. These findings are congruent with recent findings that more “silent types” of maltreatment uniquely predict depression, and that abuse and neglect experiences confer distinct profiles of risk for psychological distress.
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Pubmed ID:30589315
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC6934047
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Funding:US Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development/ ; L30 AA016421/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States ; L30 HD074175/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; US Department of Justice; Office of Justice Programs; National Institute of Justice (NIJ)/ ; K23 HD059916/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; ... More +
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Volume:11
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Issue:7
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