Influence Of Trauma Research Articles

Pathways from childhood trauma to aberrant salience: A structural equation approach to mentalization model.

The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between affective disturbances and aberrant salience in the context of childhood trauma, attachment, and mentalization in an analogue study. Using a cross-sectional design, an online community sample completed self-report measures of key variables. Structural equation modelling was used to test childhood trauma's influence on aberrant salience via a set of intermediate risk factors (depression, negative schizotypy, and insecure attachment). These intermediate risk factors were assumed to lead to the proximal risk factors of aberrant salience (i.e., disorganized schizotypy and disorganized attachment) depending on the vulnerability of mentalizing capacity to elevated stress. The sample (N = 1263) was 78% female and aged between 18 and 35 years. The tested models closely fitted the observed data, revealing significant pathways from childhood trauma to aberrant salience via the hypothesized pathways. The direct effect of childhood trauma on aberrant salience was significant. Findings suggest that the pathway to aberrant salience may be characterized by disorganization of self-state and intersubjectivity as a function of diminishment in mentalizing ability. This may relate to changes in attachment organization and socio-cognitive capacity, which could constitute possible risk factors signalling development of aberrant salience.

Psycho-autistic trauma of laura deighton in torey l. hayden’s overheard in a dream

Laura's autistic son Conor, whose ramifications have caused so much suffering, has irreversibly upset her. This paradigm commonly use theories of trauma's influence on the human psyche to examine an individual's experience of a collective traumatic event in a book, making a link between people's experiences and cultural groupings, or between the personal and public worlds. Trauma is an incomprehensible occurrence that shatters identity and eludes normal remembrance and narrative representation, and it has impacted the psyche of Laura, the protagonist. Conor's mood swings and oddities cause chaos in their lives, and they can't seem to get away from them. Conor's emotional instability eventually leads to her turbulent existence, which has an emotional and psychological consequence that cannot be rationalized. The narrative swiftly transitioned from a clinical case study of an autistic kid to a weird dream world in which the child's mother lived as a youngster. Torgon, her fictional character, is characterised by her awestruck visions, which cause her to get increasingly excited. Her strange behaviour was prompted by her recollections of her children and the sorrow of their existence.

Death salience moderates the effect of trauma on religiosity.

Previous research has shown contradictory evidence for the relationship between religiosity and trauma; exposure to traumatic life events has been associated with both increases and decreases in religiosity over time. On the basis of a long theoretical tradition of linking death and religious belief and recent empirical evidence that thoughts of death may increase religiosity, we tested whether one determinant of trauma's influence on religion is the degree to which it makes death salient. Using longitudinal data from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, a unique population-representative birth cohort, we tested whether the relationship between trauma and religiosity depends on whether the trauma involves death. Participants reported their private, ceremonial, and public religious behaviors at ages 26 and 32 and, at age 32, whether they had experienced any of 23 traumatic life events since age 26. Experiencing the death of a loved one (but not an equally traumatic event not involving death) predicted a future increase in private religious behavior (e.g., prayer) among those already practicing such behaviors, and an increase in the importance of religious ceremonies among those with relatively little prior interest in them. On the other hand, experiencing a death-unrelated trauma predicted a future reduction in public displays of religiosity among those previously so inclined. The study represents a significant step in understanding religious responses to trauma, and emphasizes the importance of considering not only the nature of a trauma, but also the dimensions and practices of a victim's religiosity prior to it. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).