TY - JOUR
T1 - Adverse social relationships in childhood: Are there links with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and suicidality in adulthood?
AU - Angelakis, Ioannis
AU - Gooding, Patricia
N1 - Funding Information:
No financial support has been received. Acknowledgements
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/10/10
Y1 - 2020/10/10
N2 - This study aimed to i) explore the association between perceptions of negative social relationships in childhood with significant others, including peers, guardians and teachers, symptoms of depression and OCD, and suicide behaviors, and ii) examine whether depression and OCD severity meditated the association between these perceptions and suicide experiences. In total, 783 individuals from the community were invited to complete self-report measures. There were strong associations between perceptions of adverse social relationships in childhood, severity of depression and OCD, and suicide behaviors. Furthermore, depression and OCD partially mediated the association between perceptions of adverse social relationships, especially with peers, and suicide behaviors. These results provide strong evidence for the importance of developing clinical interventions that directly target negative experiences of social relationships in childhood, and for raising public and scientific awareness that everyday adverse social interactions with significant others can impact negatively on mental health including suicide behaviors.
AB - This study aimed to i) explore the association between perceptions of negative social relationships in childhood with significant others, including peers, guardians and teachers, symptoms of depression and OCD, and suicide behaviors, and ii) examine whether depression and OCD severity meditated the association between these perceptions and suicide experiences. In total, 783 individuals from the community were invited to complete self-report measures. There were strong associations between perceptions of adverse social relationships in childhood, severity of depression and OCD, and suicide behaviors. Furthermore, depression and OCD partially mediated the association between perceptions of adverse social relationships, especially with peers, and suicide behaviors. These results provide strong evidence for the importance of developing clinical interventions that directly target negative experiences of social relationships in childhood, and for raising public and scientific awareness that everyday adverse social interactions with significant others can impact negatively on mental health including suicide behaviors.
KW - perceptions of adverse social relationships
KW - mental health conditions
KW - suicide thoughts and behaviors
U2 - 10.1007/s10578-020-01077-3
DO - 10.1007/s10578-020-01077-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 33040218
SN - 1573-3327
VL - 52
SP - 945
EP - 956
JO - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
JF - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
IS - 5
M1 - 00
ER -