Positive affect, childhood adversity, and psychopathology in psychiatric inpatients

Positive affect, childhood adversity, and psychopathology in psychiatric inpatients

BACKGROUND Low positive affect is closely related to common pathological responses to childhood adversity, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, but little is known about how the characteristics of early adversity experiences might be related to positive affect in adulthood. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore whether low positive affect is related to specific child...

Childhood Victimization: EARLY Adversity, LATER Psychopathology

Amygdala, Childhood Adversity and Psychiatric Disorders

Future Directions in Childhood Adversity and Youth Psychopathology.

Despite long-standing interest in the influence of adverse early experiences on mental health, systematic scientific inquiry into childhood adversity and developmental outcomes has emerged only recently. Existing research has amply demonstrated that exposure to childhood adversity is associated with elevated risk for multiple forms of youth psychopathology. In contrast, knowledge of development...

Tripartite structure of positive and negative affect, depression, and anxiety in child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients.

The tripartite model of depression and anxiety suggests that depression and anxiety have shared (generalized negative affect) and specific (anhedonia and physiological hyperarousal) components. In one of the 1st studies to examine the structure of mood-related symptoms in youngsters, this model was tested among 116 child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients, ages 8-16 (M = 12.46; SD = 2.33). C...