Anxiety and negative self-schemas mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and paranoia

TY - JOUR

T1 - Anxiety and negative self-schemas mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and paranoia

AU - Fisher, Helen L

AU - Appiah-Kusi, Elizabeth

AU - Grant, Celina

PY - 2012/4

Y1 - 2012/4

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.12.004

DO - 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.12.004

M3 - Article

C2 - 22390830

SN - 0165-1781

VL - 196

SP - 323

EP - 324

JO - Psychiatry Research

JF - Psychiatry Research

IS - 2-3

ER -