title: Effects of childhood trauma on personality in a sample of Chinese adolescents.
abstract: Childhood trauma is a major public health problem which has an impact on personality development, yet no studies have examined the association between exposure to trauma and personality in a sample of Chinese adolescents. Four hundred eighty-five students completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ). The CTQ-SF cut-off scores for exposure were used to calculate the prevalence of trauma. The possible associations between specific types of trauma and the EPQ subscale scores were examined. The rates of emotional abuse (EA), physical abuse (PA), sexual abuse (SA), emotional neglect (EN), and physical neglect (PN) were 18.76%, 11.13%, 27.01%, 49.48%, and 68.66%, respectively. Individuals subjected to EA, PA, and SA had significantly higher neuroticism (EPQ-N) and psychoticism (EPQ-P) scores on the EPQ compared with those who had not experienced EA, PA, or SA (all p values<0.05). Significant positive correlations existed between CTQ-SF subscale scores for EA, SA, CTQ-SF total scores, and EPQ-N, EPQ-P scores (all p values<0.05). Significant number of subjects in this adolescent sample reported experience of childhood abuse and neglect. Exposure to childhood trauma is associated with personality development in Chinese adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Lab of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100088, China.
authors.forename: XianBin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Lab of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100088, China.
authors.forename: ZhiMin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Lab of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100088, China.
authors.forename: YeZhi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Lab of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100088, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Shandong University School of Medicine, Jinan 250014, China.
authors.forename: JinTong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Beijing Key Lab of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100088, China.
authors.forename: ChuanYue
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D012424:Rural Population; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Abuse; Adolescents; China; Neglect; Personality