Trait self-acceptance mediates parental childhood abuse predicting depression and anxiety symptoms in adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biopsychosocial models posit that experiencing parental childhood abuse increases vulnerability to psychopathology in adulthood. There are a lack of studies investigating mediators of the parental childhood abuse-adulthood psychopathology relation. The current study investigated if trait self-acceptance mediated the parental childhood abuse-adulthood major depressive disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and panic disorder (PD) severity relations.

Methods

Participants (n = 3294) partook in the 18-year Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) study at three time-points. We conducted structural equation modeling analyses to test how maternal and paternal childhood abuse at Time 1 would independently positively predict MDD, GAD, and PD severity

SUBMITTER: Sanghvi DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10193854 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature