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Childhood emotional maltreatment and psychosocial functioning in adulthood: associations with generalized interpersonal trust, life satisfaction, and psychiatric morbidity

EFFECTS OF MATERNAL EMOTIONAL CHILDHOOD MALTREATMENT ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF OWN CHIDREN MEDIATED BY MATERNAL DEPRESSION AND HELPLESSNESS

Comparisons by maltreatment type showed that exposure to multiple types of maltreatment was associated with the poorest outcomes across all psychosocial domains, while emotional maltreatment was also associated with particularly marked impairment in life satisfaction.

The aim of the study was to compare psychosocial functioning in adulthood by type of childhood maltreatment (none, emotional, physical, sexual, or multiple); the outcome variables were generalized interpersonal trust, life satisfaction, and the number of self-reported psychiatric diagnoses. In a population-representative cross-sectional survey in Germany, N = 2,484 participants (aged 16–92; 46% female) were assessed using the CTQ; analyses included MANCOVA controlling for age, sex, and education, Bonferroni-adjusted post hoc comparisons, and robustness analyses using multiple imputation. The multivariate test showed a significant effect of maltreatment type (Wilks' Λ = 0.788; F = 32.595; df 12 and 4162.06; p < 0.001; partial η² = 0.076). Univariate tests yielded F = 10.318, p < 0.001, partial η² = 0.026 for generalized interpersonal trust; F = 82.657, p < 0.001, partial η² = 0.174 for life satisfaction; and F = 32.884, p < 0.001, partial η² = 0.077 for psychiatric morbidity (number of diagnoses). In binary logistic regressions predicting individual diagnoses by maltreatment type, only the ADHD model reached statistical significance (B = -0.22; SE = 0.10; Wald = 4.77; p = 0.029; OR = 0.80; 95% CI [0.66, 0.98]; Nagelkerke R² = 0.016), and the effect size was small. Higher levels of emotional maltreatment were associated with stronger endorsement of emotionally punitive disciplinary attitudes, as well as lower interpersonal trust, less cognitive reappraisal, and greater suppression; in mediation analyses, generalized interpersonal trust was the strongest pathway and accounted for approximately 26% of the total association in the simple mediation model. In conclusion, childhood maltreatment is associated with widespread impairment in psychosocial functioning in adulthood, and the effects of emotional abuse and neglect extend beyond conventional psychiatric outcome measures. The findings remained robust after multiple imputation.

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