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. 2012 Apr 30;196(2-3):323-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.12.004. Epub 2012 Mar 3.

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

Helen L Fisher  1 , Elizabeth Appiah-Kusi, Celina Grant
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Anxiety and negative self-schemas mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and paranoia

Helen L Fisher et al. Psychiatry Res. .

Abstract

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.

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