To what extent do social support and mastery mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and depression? A sequential causal mediation analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aimed to examine the independent roles of various childhood maltreatment (CM) subtypes in the development of depression; quantify the joint mediation effect of social support and mastery in the association between subtypes of CM and depression and examine the additional contribution of mastery beyond the effect that is operating through social support to this relationship.

Methods

Data analysed were from the Zone d'Épidémiologie Psychiatrique du Sud-Ouest de Montréal, an ongoing longitudinal population-based study. In total, 1351 participants with complete information on the studied variables were included. The propensity score matching and inverse-probability weighted regression adjustment estimation methods were used to minimise the potential confounding in

SUBMITTER: Su YY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9677445 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature