Social influences on the relationship between dissociation and psychotic-like experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Shame is experienced as a threat to social self, and so activates threat-protective responses. There is evidence that shame has trauma-like characteristics, suggesting it can be understood within the same conceptual framework as trauma and dissociation. Evidence for causal links among trauma, dissociation, and psychosis thus warrant the investigation of how shame may influence causal mechanisms for psychosis symptoms.

Methods

This study tested the interaction between dissociation and shame, specifically external shame (feeling shamed by others), in predicting psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) six months later in a general population sample (N = 314). It also tested if social safeness moderates these effects. A longitudinal, online questionnaire design teste

SUBMITTER: Heriot-Maitland C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11496215 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature