Perseverative thinking, threat interpretation bias, and emotional reactivity as mediators between adverse childhood experience domains and psychopathology: A longitudinal mediation study in a cohort of Swiss emerging adults.

ABSTRACT: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are robust predictors of negative mental health outcomes and psychosocial difficulties, yet the psychological mechanisms linking ACEs to later psychopathology remain only partially understood. Drawing on a three-wave longitudinal study of Swiss emerging adults (N = 1934), we conducted longitudinal mediation analyses to examine emotional processing (emotional reactivity, perseverative thinking) and social information processing (threat interpretation bias, rejection sensitivity) as pathways from ACEs to psychopathology. Factor analyses identified three distinct ACE domains: family maltreatment, peer victimization, and sexual abuse. By modelling these domains simultaneously, we accounted for their frequent co-occurrence and isolated their unique co

SUBMITTER: Brodbeck J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12756547 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature