Clarifying the causal relationship in women between childhood sexual abuse and lifetime major depression

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1213-1221

  Kendler, K S ^a   Aggen, S H ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal relationship; childhood sexual abuse; major depression; mood congruent recall

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TWINS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VIRGINIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926091456     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291713001797     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. ACSF (1992). AIDS and sexual behaviour in France. ACSF investigators. Nature 360, 407-409.
2. Ammerman RT (1998). Methodological issues in child maltreatment research. In Handbook of Child Abuse Research and Treatment (ed. J. R. Lutzker), pp. 117-132. Plenum Press: New York, NY.
3. Aneshensel CS, Estrada AL, Hansell MJ, Clark VA (1987). Social psychological aspects of reporting behavior: lifetime depressive episode reports. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 28, 232-246.
4. Bentler PM (1990). Comparative fit indexes in structural models. Psychological Bulletin 107, 238-246.
5. Blaney PH (1986). Affect and memory: a review. Psychological Bulletin 99, 229-246.
6. Bower GH (1981). Mood and memory. American Psychologist 36, 129-148.
7. Bradley B, Mathews A (1983). Negative self-schemata in clinical depression. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 22, 173-181.
8. Bromet EJ, Dunn LO, Connell MM, Dew MA, Schulberg HC (1986). Long-term reliability of diagnosing lifetime major depression in a community sample. Archives of General Psychiatry 43, 435-440.
9. Brown JB, Adams ME (1992). Patients as reliable reporters of medical care process. Recall of ambulatory encounter events. Medical Care 30, 400-411.
10. Cong E, Li Y, Shao C, Chen J, Wu W, Shang X, Wang Z, Liu Y, Liu L, Gao C, Li Y, Wu J, Deng H, Liu J, Sang W, Liu G, Rong H, Gan Z, Li L, Li K, Pan J, Li Y, Cui Y, Sun L, Liu L, Liu H, Zhao X, Zhang Y, Zhang R, Chen Y, Wang X, Li H, Chen Y, Lin Y, Kendler KS, Flint J, Shi S (2011). Childhood sexual abuse and the risk for recurrent major depression in Chinese women. Psychological Medicine. Published online: 11 August 2011. doi:10.1017/ S0033291711001462.
11. Coughlin SS (1990). Recall bias in epidemiologic studies. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 43, 87-91.
12. Dalgleish T, Watts FN (1990). Biases of attention and memory in disorders of anxiety and depression. Clinical Psychology Review 10, 589-604.
13. Derogatis LR, Lipman RS, Covi L (1973). SCL-90: an outpatient psychiatric rating scale - preliminary report. Psychopharmacology Bulletin 9, 13-28.
14. Ellis HC, Moore BA (1999). Mood and memory. In Handbook of Cognition and Emotion (ed. T. Dalgleish and M. J. Power), pp. 193-210. John Wiley & Sons Ltd: New York, NY.
15. Endicott J, Andreasen N, Spitzer RL (1975). Family History: Research Diagnostic Criteria. Biometrics Research Department, New York State Psychiatric Institute: New York, NY.
16. Fawcett J (1997). The detection and consequences of anxiety in clinical depression. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 58 (Suppl. 8), 35-40.
17. Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ, Boden JM (2011). Structural equation modeling of repeated retrospective reports of childhood maltreatment. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 20, 93-104.
18. Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ, Woodward LJ (2000). The stability of child abuse reports: a longitudinal study of the reporting behaviour of young adults. Psychological Medicine 30, 529-544.
19. Fergusson DM, Mullen PE (1999). Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Evidence Based Perspective. Sage Publications, Inc.: Thousand Oaks, CA.
20. Foley DL, Neale MC, Kendler KS (2001). Genetic and environmental risk factors for depression assessed by subject-rated symptom check list versus structured clinical interview. Psychological Medicine 31, 1413-1423.
21. Geerlings S, Beekman A, Deeg D, van Tilburg W, Smit J (1998). The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (CES-D) in a mixed-mode repeated measurements design: sex and age effects in older adults. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 8, 102-109.
22. Gilboa E, Roberts JE, Gotlib IH (1997). The effects of induced and naturally occurring dysphoric mood on biases in self evaluation and memory. Cognition and Emotion 11, 65-82.
23. Hser YI (1997). Self-reported drug use: results of selected empirical investigations of validity. NIDA Research Monographs 167, 320-343.
24. Kendall-Tackett KA, Williams LM, Finkelhor D (1993). Impact of sexual abuse on children: a review and synthesis of recent empirical studies. Psychological Bulletin 113, 164-180.
25. Kendler KS (1996). Parenting: a genetic-epidemiologic perspective. American Journal of Psychiatry 153, 11-20.
26. Kendler KS, Bulik CM, Silberg J, Hettema JM, Myers J, Prescott CA (2000). Childhood sexual abuse and adult psychiatric and substance use disorders in women: an epidemiological and cotwin control analysis. Archives of General Psychiatry 57, 953-959.
27. Kendler KS, Gardner CO, Prescott CA (2001). Are there sex differences in the reliability of a lifetime history of major depression and its predictors? Psychological Medicine 31, 617-625.
28. Kendler KS, Neale MC, Kessler RC, Heath AC, Eaves LJ (1993). The lifetime history of major depression in women. Reliability of diagnosis and heritability. Archives of General Psychiatry 50, 863-870.
29. Kendler KS, Prescott CA (2006). Genes, Environment, and Psychopathology: Understanding the Causes of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders, 1st edn. Guilford Press: New York.
30. Lemogne C, Piolino P, Jouvent R, Allilaire JF, Fossati P (2006). Episodic autobiographical memory in depression: a review [in French]. Encephale 32, 781-788.
31. Lewinsohn PM, Rosenbaum M (1987). Recall of parental behavior by acute depressives, remitted depressives, and nondepressives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 52, 611-619.
32. Lewis PA, Critchley HD (2003). Mood-dependent memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7, 431-433.
33. Magee WJ, Eaton WW, Wittchen HU, McGonagle KA, Kessler RC (1996). Agoraphobia, simple phobia, and social phobia in the National Comorbidity Survey. Archives of General Psychiatry 53, 159-168.
34. Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric GWAS Consortium (2013). A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder. Molecular Psychiatry 18, 497-511.
35. Martin J, Anderson J, Romans S, Mullen P, O'Shea M (1993). Asking about child sexual abuse: methodological implications of a two stage survey. Child Abuse and Neglect 17, 383-392.
36. Mathews A, Bradley B (1983). Mood and the self-reference bias in recall. Behaviour Research and Therapy 21, 233-239.
37. Maughan B, Rutter M (1997). Retrospective reporting of childhood adversity: issues in assessing long-term recall. Journal of Personality Disorders 11, 19-33.
38. Moffitt TE, Caspi A, Taylor A, Kokaua J, Milne BJ, Polanczyk G, Poulton R (2010). How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainment. Psychological Medicine 40, 899-909.
39. Muthén LK, Muthén BO (2007). Mplus User's Guide: Fifth Edition. Muthén & Muthén: Los Angeles, CA.
40. Nelson EC, Heath AC, Madden PA, Cooper ML, Dinwiddie SH, Bucholz KK, Glowinski A, McLaughlin T, Dunne MP, Statham DJ, Martin NG (2002). Association between self-reported childhood sexual abuse and adverse psychosocial outcomes: results from a twin study. Archives of General Psychiatry 59, 139-145.
41. Orvaschel H, Thompson WD, Belanger A, Prusoff BA, Kidd KK (1982). Comparison of the family history method to direct interview. Factors affecting the diagnosis of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 4, 49-59.
42. Parker G, Tupling H, Brown L (1979). A parental bonding instrument. British Journal of Medical Psychology 52, 1-10.
43. Prusoff BA, Merikangas KR, Weissman MM (1988). Lifetime prevalence and age of onset of psychiatric disorders: recall 4 years later. Journal of Psychiatric Research 22, 107-117.
44. Rind B, Tromovitch P (1997). A meta-analytic review of finding from national samples on psychological correlates of child sexual abuse. Journal of Sex Research 34, 237-255.
45. Roy MA, Walsh D, Kendler KS (1996). Accuracies and inaccuracies of the family history method: a multivariate approach. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 93, 224-234.
46. Siemiatycki J (1979). A comparison of mail, telephone, and home interview strategies for household health surveys. American Journal of Public Health 69, 238-245.
47. Steiger JH (1990). Structural model evaluation and modification: an interval estimation approach. Multivariate Behavioral Research 25, 173-180.
48. Sullivan PF, Neale MC, Kendler KS (2000). Genetic epidemiology of major depression: review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Psychiatry 157, 1552-1562.
49. Tucker LR, Lewis C (1973). A reliability coefficient for maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika 38, 1-10.
50. Widom CS, Morris S (1997). Accuracy of adult recollections of childhood victimization: Part 2. Childhood sexual abuse. Psychological Assessment 9, 34-46.
51. Widom CS, Shepard RL (1996). Accuracy of adult recollections of childhood victimization: Part 1. Childhood physical abuse. Psychological Assessment 8, 412-421.
52. Wu SC, Li CY, Ke DS (2000). The agreement between self-reporting and clinical diagnosis for selected medical conditions among the elderly in Taiwan. Public Health 114, 137-142.