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  • Neuroscience
  • Social Science

Background:

  • Traumatic experiences can negatively affect reflective functioning (RF), impairing the ability to understand mental states.
  • Epistemic trust (ET), the confidence in information sources, may interact with RF and trauma.
  • Understanding these relationships is crucial for addressing mental health challenges stemming from adverse childhood experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how different childhood traumatic experiences relate to impairments in reflective functioning (RF).
  • To explore the mediating role of epistemic trust (ET) stances (trust, mistrust, credulity) in the link between childhood trauma and RF.
  • To examine specific associations between emotional abuse and RF uncertainty/certainty via ET.

Main Methods:

  • Structural equation modeling was used to analyze data from 496 cisgender emerging adults.
  • Participants reported on childhood traumatic experiences, ET, and RF.
  • Direct and indirect associations between variables were statistically examined.

Main Results:

  • Emotional abuse indirectly predicted uncertainty about mental states through credibility (a facet of ET).
  • Emotional abuse also indirectly predicted certainty about mental states through mistrust and credibility.
  • Credulity was linked to increased RF uncertainty following emotional abuse.

Conclusions:

  • Lack of critical evaluation of information (credulity) may heighten RF uncertainty after childhood emotional abuse.
  • Mistrust, as a protective mechanism, may paradoxically increase RF certainty when combined with childhood emotional abuse.
  • Findings highlight the complex interplay between early trauma, ET, and RF, with implications for interventions.