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The mediating effects of childhood neglect on the association between schizotypal and autistic personality traits and depression in a non-clinical sample

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Psychiatry, October 2017
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Title
The mediating effects of childhood neglect on the association between schizotypal and autistic personality traits and depression in a non-clinical sample
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BMC Psychiatry, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12888-017-1510-0
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Jianbo Liu, Jingbo Gong, Guanghui Nie, Yuqiong He, Bo Xiao, Yanmei Shen, Xuerong Luo

Abstract

Autistic personality traits (APT) and schizotypal personality traits (SPT) are associated with depression. However, mediating factors within these relationships have not yet been explored. Thus, the focus of the current study was to examine the effects of childhood neglect on the relationship between APT/SPT and depression. This cross-sectional study was conducted on first-year students (N = 2469) at Hunan University of Chinese Medicine and Hengyang Normal College (Changsha, China). Participants completed surveys on APT, SPT, childhood neglect, abuse and depression. Through correlational analyses, APT and SPT traits were positively correlated with childhood neglect and depression (p < 0.05). In a hierarchical regression analysis, among types of childhood maltreatment, emotional neglect (β = 0.112, p < 0.001) and physical neglect (β = 0.105, p < 0.001) were the strongest predictors of depression. Childhood neglect did not account for the relationships between APT/SPT and depression. Further analysis found that childhood neglect mediated the relationship between SPT and depression but not APT and depression. Among types of childhood maltreatment, neglect was the strongest predicting factor for depression. Neglect did not account for the relationship between APT/SPT and depression but was a strong mediating factor between SPT and depression.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 87 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 21%
Student > Bachelor 10 11%
Researcher 9 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 3%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 37 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 25 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 10%
Neuroscience 3 3%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 38 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

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#7,492,099
of 23,549,388 outputs
Outputs from BMC Psychiatry
#2,534
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#120,928
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Psychiatry
#24
of 58 outputs
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