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Association Between Childhood Trauma and Somatization in a Clinical Sample: The Mediating Roles of Rumination,
Mi-Sun Lee1,2, Mimi Lee3,4, Hyeong Beom Kim3,5
1Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Objective:
This study investigated the relationships among childhood trauma, somatization, depressive rumination, cognitive reappraisal, and expressive suppression among a clinical sample through a mediation model approach.
Methods:
Outpatients (n=125) with a diagnosis of depression and/or anxiety were included in our study. Childhood trauma, somatization, depressive rumination, cognitive reappraisal, and expressive suppression were assessed by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Symptom Checklist-90-Revision (SCL-90-R), Korean-Ruminative Response Scale (K-RRS), and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), respectively.
Results:
Childhood trauma was associated with somatization symptoms mediated by depressive rumination and cognitive reappraisal. In particular, emotional abuse was positively associated with somatization mediated by a depressive rumination. However, the mediating effect of expressive suppression on the relationship between childhood trauma and somatization was not significant.
Conclusion:
These findings suggest that depressive rumination is a key element affecting somatization symptoms in clinical patients who experienced emotional abuse.
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