Associations between specific psychotic symptoms and specific childhood adversities are mediated by attachment styles: An analysis of the National Comorbidity Survey

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 202-209

  Sitko, Katarzyna ^a   Bentall, Richard P ^a   Shevlin, Mark ^b   O'Sullivan, Noreen ^a   Sellwood, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delusions; Hallucinations; Indirect effects; Paranoia; Psychosis; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PARANOIA; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPE; THREAT; WITNESS; CHILD ABUSE; COMORBIDITY; HALLUCINATIONS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PARANOID DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARANOID DISORDERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RAPE; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900015234     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.019     Document Type: Article

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