title: Mediation of abusive childhood experiences: depression, dissociation, and negative life outcomes.
abstract: A study of 301 college undergraduates is employed to test a causal model which proposes that dissociation and depression act as mediator variables that develop from child abuse and lead to various negative outcomes. As predicted, child maltreatment was found to be related to negative life experiences, with depression and dissociation differentially mediating the various outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Becker-Lausen
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Chinsky
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development