Dimensions of deprivation and threat, psychopathology, and potential mediators: A multi-year longitudinal analysis.

ABSTRACT: Prior research demonstrates a link between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology later in development. However, work on mechanisms linking adversity to psychopathology fails to account for specificity in these pathways across different types of adversity. Here, we test a conceptual model that distinguishes deprivation and threat as distinct forms of childhood adversity with different pathways to psychopathology. Deprivation involves an absence of inputs from the environment, such as cognitive and social stimulation, that influence psychopathology by altering cognitive development, such as verbal abilities. Threat includes experiences involving harm or threat of harm that increase risk for psychopathology through disruptions in social-emotional processing. We test the predicti

SUBMITTER: Miller AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5851283 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature