title: Anxiety and negative self-schemas mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and paranoia.
abstract: This study examined affective and psychological routes from childhood maltreatment to increased paranoia in adulthood. Recent anxiety and negative beliefs about the self partially accounted for the associations between emotional or physical abuse and paranoia. However, as full mediation did not occur, other psychological, social and biological pathways require exploration.
authors.affiliation: King's College, London, UK. helen.2.fisher@kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Helen L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Appiah-Kusi
authors.forename: Celina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grant
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult