Self-Awareness, Affect Regulation, and Relatedness: Differential Sequels of Childhood Versus Adult Victimization Experiences
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This study examined abuse and trauma exposure as it predicted identity problems, affect dysregulation, and relational disturbance in 620 individuals from the general population. Multivariate analyses indicated that maternal (but not paternal) emotional abuse was uniquely associated with elevations on all 7 scales of the Inventory of Altered Self-Capacities (IASC): Interpersonal Conflicts, Idealization-Disillusionment, Abandonment Concerns, Identity Impairment, Susceptibility to Influence, Affect Dysregulation, and Tension Reduction Activities. Low paternal (but not low maternal) emotional support was associated with Interpersonal Conflicts, Abandonment Concerns, and Tension Reduction Behaviors. Paternal emotional support did not significantly decrease the negative effects of maternal emotional abuse. Sexual abuse was predictive of all IASC scales except for Interpersonal Conflicts and Identity Impairment. Noninterpersonal traumas and adult traumas were typically unrelated to IASC scales. Childhood emotional and sexual maltreatment--perhaps especially maternal emotional abuse--may be critical factors in the development of disturbed self-capacities.
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The association between exposure to sustained traumatic stressors and disturbances in affect, self-concept, and relational difficulties has been supported in the literature.
“Indeed, the association between exposure to sustained traumatic stressors and disturbances in affect, self-concept, and relational difficulties has been supported in the literature (Briere & Rickards, 2007).”
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- Authors
- Briere, J., & Rickards, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern California (US)
- Corresponding author
- Briere, John
- ORCID
- Briere, John
- Venue
- Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Published
- 2007-06
- Volume
- 195
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 497-503
- ISSN
- 0022-3018 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2048935913
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 3
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- FWCI
- 7.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Keywords
- childhood emotional abuse, child sexual abuse, trauma exposure, affect dysregulation, interpersonal conflict, parental emotional support, self-capacity, relatedness
- MeSH terms
- Affective Symptoms, Age Factors, Awareness, Child, Child Abuse, Child Abuse, Sexual, Family Relations, Father-Child Relations, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Life Change Events, Male, Middle Aged, Mother-Child Relations, Personality Disorders, Personality Inventory, Self Concept, Social Adjustment, Stress, Psychological, Multivariate Analysis, Crime Victims
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