AIM To retrospectively analyze the rate of multi-type abuse in childhood and the effects of childhood abuse and type of coping strategies on the psychological adaptation of young adults in a sample form the student population of the University of Mostar. METHODS The study was conducted on a convenience sample of 233 students from the University of Mostar (196 female and 37 male), with a media...

OBJECTIVE to determine whether there is an independent association between physical abuse during pregnancy or stress because of emotional, sexual, or physical abuse during pregnancy and birthweight after adjusting for behavioral, psychosocial, demographic, and medical variables. METHODS We conducted a cross sectional study of 808 low-income women, age 18 years or older, who delivered single i...

Pezdek, Blandon-Gitlin, and Gabbay (2006) found that perceptions of the plausibility of events increase the likelihood that imagination may induce false memories of those events. Using a survey conducted by Gallup, we asked a large sample of the general population how plausible it would be for a person with longstanding emotional problems and a need for psychotherapy to be a victim of childhood...

In the Emotional Stroop task, trauma-exposed victims are slowed when naming the colour print of trauma-related words, showing the presence of interference. This interference has been assumed to reflect emotional reactions triggered by experience-relevant emotional content which interfere with the task. However, it may equally reflect the activation of task-competing thoughts triggered by experi...

Outcome Measure: Responses to the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire. Results:Several typesof childvictimizationwere reported significantly less often in 2008 than in 2003: physical assaults, sexual assaults, and peer and sibling victimizations, includingphysicalbullying.Therewerealsosignificantdeclines in psychological and emotional abuse by caregivers, exposure to community violence, and th...

OBJECTIVES This study examined whether subjective sleep complaints in late adulthood were associated with childhood parental abuse and neglect and whether the association was mediated by current relationship strain and emotional distress. METHODS Multiple regression analyses were performed on data from 877 older adults aged 60 years and above from the National Survey of Midlife Development in...

Emotional abuse in childhood has been linked to a higher expression of aggressive behavior adulthood. The identification protective factors that mitigate this association is needed. Mentalizing—the capacity understand terms intentional mental states—appears be promising candidate factor possibly modifies maladaptive consequences early emotional abuse. This study investigated associations betwee...

BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence (IPV) is actual or threatened physical, sexual, psychological, emotional or stalking abuse by an intimate partner. Despite the high prevalence of IPV in South Africa (SA), there is a paucity of data on university students training in fields where they are likely to have to manage the after-effects of such events in their personal capacity in the future. OB...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a risk factor for HIV acquisition in many settings, but little is known about its impact on cellular immunity especially in HIV infected women, and if any impact differs according to the form of IPV. We tested hypotheses that exposure to IPV, non-partner rape, hunger, pregnancy, depression and substance abuse predicted change in CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell count in a...

BACKGROUND Although suicide is a known leading cause of death among street youth, few prospective studies have explored childhood experiences as risk factors for future suicide attempt in this population. We examined the risk of attempted suicide in relation to childhood maltreatment among street youth. METHODS From September 2005 to November 2013, data were collected from the At Risk Youth S...