# The relationship between attachment styles, childhood trauma, and psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia: the mediating role of attachment styles - URL: https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev1193 - Language: en - Last updated: not specified - Page title: The relationship between attachment styles, childhood trauma, and psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia: the mediating role of attachment styles | WCP 2026 Summary > Childhood trauma is significantly and positively associated with both psychotic symptom severity and insecure attachment styles in patients with schizophrenia. This page was translated automatically from Turkish. [Read the original](https://alisanburak.com/wcp-2026-posterler/ev1193) This page is an AI-assisted Turkish summary of the study presented at the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry. The study belongs to the presenting authors; please refer to the original source when citing it. EV1193 E-PosterPsychosis and SchizophreniaCross-sectional study (descriptive, correlational) # The relationship between attachment styles, childhood trauma, and psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia: the mediating role of attachment styles RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTACHMENT STYLES, CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, AND PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA: ATTACHMENT STYLES AS A MEDIATING ROLE Presenter: Esra Bekircan Country: Turkey Institution: Trabzon University, Psychiatric Nursing Childhood trauma is significantly and positively associated with both psychotic symptom severity and insecure attachment styles in patients with schizophrenia. The study aimed to examine the mediating role of attachment styles in the relationship between childhood trauma and positive and negative psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia, as well as the relationships among these variables. This descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study was conducted with 99 patients with schizophrenia who attended the psychiatry outpatient clinic of a tertiary care hospital between January 2025 and July 2025. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using the Demographic and Clinical Characteristics Form, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the Relationship Scales Questionnaire (RSQ), and the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). A significant positive correlation was found between total PANSS and CTQ scores (r=0.260; p<0.01). Significant positive correlations were also found between PANSS scores and the RSQ preoccupied attachment subscale (r=0.309; p<0.01), and between CTQ scores and the RSQ avoidant attachment subscale (r=0.255; p=0.011). The authors state that childhood trauma in patients with schizophrenia may increase the severity of positive and negative symptoms over the course of the illness and may lead to the development of insecure attachment styles. Assessing childhood trauma history and taking attachment styles into account in clinical practice are recommended as an important strategy for developing personalized treatment plans. [View the original poster](https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/31) How to cite this study APA 7: Bekircan, E., et al. (2026, September 23-26). Relationship between attachment styles, childhood trauma, and psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia: attachment styles as a mediating role [E-poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026), Stockholm, Sweden. https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/31 Vancouver: Bekircan E, et al. Relationship between attachment styles, childhood trauma, and psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia: attachment styles as a mediating role [e-poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026); 2026 Sep 23-26; Stockholm, Sweden. 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