TY - JOUR
T1 - Childhood Emotional Maltreatment as a Robust Predictor of Suicidal Ideation
T2 - A 3-Year Multi-Wave, Prospective Investigation
AU - Miller, Adam Bryant
AU - Jenness, Jessica L.
AU - Oppenheimer, Caroline W.
AU - Gottleib, Andrea L.Barrocas
AU - Young, Jami F.
AU - Hankin, Benjamin L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the following: National Institute of Mental Health (F32MH108238: Miller), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32HD057822: Jenness), National Institute of Mental Health (5R01MH077195 & 5R01MH077178: Young and Hankin).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Despite literature suggesting a relationship between child maltreatment and suicidal ideation, few studies have examined the prospective course of this relationship. The current study examined this relationship in a sample of 682 community youth who were followed over the course of 3 years. Repeated measures of suicidal ideation, emotional maltreatment, and depressive symptom severity were examined in multi-wave path analysis models. Overall, results suggest that emotional maltreatment over time contributes uniquely to the prospective prediction of suicidal ideation, even when controlling for age, previous suicidal ideation, biological sex, and depression symptom severity. Unlike previous studies that have only measured emotional maltreatment at one-time point, the current study demonstrates that emotional maltreatment contributes unique risk to suicidal ideation prospectively among youth. Results speak to the importance of examining emotional maltreatment and suicidal ideation within prospective models of risk and suggest that emotional maltreatment is a robust predictor of suicidal ideation, over and above history of suicidal ideation and depression.
AB - Despite literature suggesting a relationship between child maltreatment and suicidal ideation, few studies have examined the prospective course of this relationship. The current study examined this relationship in a sample of 682 community youth who were followed over the course of 3 years. Repeated measures of suicidal ideation, emotional maltreatment, and depressive symptom severity were examined in multi-wave path analysis models. Overall, results suggest that emotional maltreatment over time contributes uniquely to the prospective prediction of suicidal ideation, even when controlling for age, previous suicidal ideation, biological sex, and depression symptom severity. Unlike previous studies that have only measured emotional maltreatment at one-time point, the current study demonstrates that emotional maltreatment contributes unique risk to suicidal ideation prospectively among youth. Results speak to the importance of examining emotional maltreatment and suicidal ideation within prospective models of risk and suggest that emotional maltreatment is a robust predictor of suicidal ideation, over and above history of suicidal ideation and depression.
KW - Adolescent suicide
KW - Child abuse
KW - Emotional maltreatment
KW - Suicidal thoughts
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U2 - 10.1007/s10802-016-0150-z
DO - 10.1007/s10802-016-0150-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 27032784
AN - SCOPUS:84962026723
VL - 45
SP - 105
EP - 116
JO - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
SN - 0091-0627
IS - 1
ER -