title: Childhood Emotional Maltreatment as a Robust Predictor of Suicidal Ideation: A 3-Year Multi-Wave, Prospective Investigation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 235 E. Cameron Ave, CB #3270, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. adam.miller@unc.edu.
authors.forename: Adam Bryant
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.affiliation: Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Jenness
authors.affiliation: Western Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburg, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Caroline W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Oppenheimer
authors.affiliation: McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Andrea L Barrocas
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Gottleib
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Jami F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Young
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Benjamin L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Hankin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D059020:Suicidal Ideation
keywords: Adolescent suicide; Child abuse; Emotional maltreatment; Suicidal thoughts