TY - JOUR
T1 - Attachment as a mechanism between childhood maltreatment and subclinical psychotic phenomena
T2 - Results from an eight-year follow-up study
AU - Sheinbaum, Tamara
AU - Racioppi, Anna
AU - Kwapil, Thomas R.
AU - Barrantes-Vidal, Neus
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Plan Nacional de I+D PSI2017-87512-C2-01 ) and Generalitat de Catalunya (Suport als Grups de Recerca 2017SGR1612 ). Neus Barrantes-Vidal is supported by the ICREA Academia Award (Generalitat de Catalunya).
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci?n y Universidades (Plan Nacional de I+D PSI2017-87512-C2-01) and Generalitat de Catalunya (Suport als Grups de Recerca 2017SGR1612). Neus Barrantes-Vidal is supported by the ICREA Academia Award (Generalitat de Catalunya).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - We previously reported that fearful attachment mediated associations of childhood maltreatment with subclinical psychotic phenomena. At an eight-year follow-up, we aimed to replicate and extend this finding by examining the mediating role of disorganized attachment. Participants were 169 young adults who completed baseline and eight-year follow-up questionnaires. Physical/emotional maltreatment was prospectively associated with paranoid beliefs and positive schizotypy. For paranoid beliefs, fearful and disorganized attachment were significant mediators in separate models, whereas only disorganized was significant when examining all attachment styles concurrently. For positive schizotypy, no mediation was found. Findings support psychological models of paranoia and may inform intervention efforts.
AB - We previously reported that fearful attachment mediated associations of childhood maltreatment with subclinical psychotic phenomena. At an eight-year follow-up, we aimed to replicate and extend this finding by examining the mediating role of disorganized attachment. Participants were 169 young adults who completed baseline and eight-year follow-up questionnaires. Physical/emotional maltreatment was prospectively associated with paranoid beliefs and positive schizotypy. For paranoid beliefs, fearful and disorganized attachment were significant mediators in separate models, whereas only disorganized was significant when examining all attachment styles concurrently. For positive schizotypy, no mediation was found. Findings support psychological models of paranoia and may inform intervention efforts.
KW - Attachment style
KW - Childhood trauma
KW - Paranoia
KW - Psychotic-like experiences
KW - Schizotypy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.schres.2020.03.023
DO - 10.1016/j.schres.2020.03.023
M3 - Article
C2 - 32295751
AN - SCOPUS:85083005762
SN - 0920-9964
VL - 220
SP - 261
EP - 264
JO - Schizophrenia Research
JF - Schizophrenia Research
ER -