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Title: | Perceived adverse parenting in childhood and psychological distress among psychotherapy patients: The mediating role of pathogenic beliefs |
Authors: | Aafjes-Van Doorn, Katie McCollum, James Silberschatz, George Kealy, David Snyder, John 0000-0003-2584-5897 |
Keywords: | Adverse parenting psychopathology Pathogenic beliefs mediation model intermediary subjective beliefs childhood adversity |
Issue Date: | Mar-2021 |
Publisher: | Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. |
Citation: | Aafjes-Van Doorn, K., McCollum, J., Silberschatz, G., Kealy, D., & Snyder, J. (2021). Perceived adverse parenting in childhood and psychological distress among psychotherapy patients: The mediating role of pathogenic beliefs. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 209(3), 181–187. https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/abstract/2021/03000/perceived_adverse_parenting_in_childhood_and.7.aspx |
Series/Report no.: | The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease;209(3) |
Abstract: | The way people derive inferences from actual adverse experiences plays an important role in the development of psychopathology. This study aims to examine the mediating role of pathogenic beliefs (i.e., emotion-laden, powerful, painful convictions about self and others) on the relation between perceived adverse parenting behaviors in childhood and subsequent adult psychopathology. Participants (mostly Caucasian and heterosexual) were 204 consecutively admitted patients with a range of psychological difficulties, including depression, anxiety, and interpersonal problems, at a low-fee outpatient clinic. Participants completed standard self-report assessments of perceived parental style, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and a clinically derived measure of pathogenic beliefs. We examined the indirect effects of adverse parenting on anxiety and depressive symptom severity through pathogenic beliefs. Pathogenic beliefs reflecting the unreliability of others significantly mediated the relationship between adverse parenting and anxiety symptoms. The other mediation model is consistent with the theory that perceived adverse parenting contributes to the severity of depressive symptoms through beliefs about not being deserving and other people being unreliable. Within the limitations of the cross-sectional, retrospective, and self-report nature of the data, our results seem to suggest that attending to intermediary subjective beliefs might be important in understanding psychopathology development in the context of childhood adversity. Aiming to modify the beliefs in therapy might modify the symptoms. However, this would remain to be demonstrated through formal intervention research. |
Description: | Scholarly article |
URI: | https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/abstract/2021/03000/perceived_adverse_parenting_in_childhood_and.7.aspx https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/9323 |
ISSN: | ISSN: 0022-3018 ; Online ISSN: 1539-736X |
Appears in Collections: | Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology: Faculty Publications |
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