Childhood trauma predicts blunted error monitoring in adulthood: An event-related potential study.

ABSTRACT: Abuse and neglect have detrimental consequences on emotional and cognitive functioning during childhood and adolescence, including error monitoring, which is a critical aspect of cognition that has been implicated in certain internalizing and externalizing psychopathologies. It is unclear, however, whether (a) childhood trauma has effects on error monitoring and, furthermore whether, (b) error monitoring mediates the relation between childhood trauma and psychopathology in adulthood. To this end, in a large sample of young adults (ages 18-30) who were oversampled for psychopathology (N = 390), the present study assessed relations between childhood trauma and error-related negativity (ERN), which is a widely used neurophysiological indicator of error monitoring. Cumulative childhood trauma

SUBMITTER: Letkiewicz AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10065923 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature