Neuroticism mediates the association between childhood abuse and the well-being of community dwelling adult volunteers

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Research

Hajime Tanabe¹  Ichiro Kusumi²  Yu Tamada³  Yota Fujimura³  Chihiro Morishita⁴  Akiyoshi Shimura⁴  Takeshi Inoue⁴ 

[1] Department of Clinical Human Sciences, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-Ku, 422-8529, Shizuoka, Japan;Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, North 15, West 7, Kita-Ku, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan;Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, 1193 Tatemachi, 193-0998, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan;Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, 160-0023, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, Japan;Department of Psychiatry, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, 160-0023, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, Japan;

关键词: Childhood abuse;    Subjective well-being;    Neuroticism;    Mediating effect;    Path analysis;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13030-023-00282-5

 received in 2023-01-22, accepted in 2023-07-07,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPrevious studies reported that the experience of maltreatment in childhood reduces subjective well-being in adulthood and that neuroticism is negatively associated with subjective well-being. However, the interrelationship between childhood maltreatment, adult life events, neuroticism, and subjective well-being has not been analyzed to date.MethodsA total of 404 adult volunteers provided responses to the following questionnaires: 1) Childhood Abuse and Trauma Scale, 2) Life Experiences Survey, 3) Neuroticism Subscale of the Shortened Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised, and 4) Subjective Well-Being Inventory. The path model was used to analyze possible interrelationships among these parameters.ResultsThe effect of childhood abuse on subjective well-being was indirect and was mediated by neuroticism. The effect of neuroticism on the negative, but not positive, change score on the Life Experiences Survey was significant. The indirect effect of neuroticism on subjective well-being was not significant via either negative or positive change scores.ConclusionsThis study demonstrated that age, subjective social status, neuroticism, and negative and positive life events were significantly associated with subjective well-being. Furthermore, using path analysis, we demonstrated the mediating role of neuroticism in the indirect effect of childhood abuse on subjective well-being.

【 授权许可】

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