集体创伤:童年虐待,感知歧视和COVID-19
Yuerui Wu1, Dana T Hartman1, Lily Brown2
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis.
Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy
|September 14, 2023
概括
童年虐待和歧视在像COVID-19流行病这样的集体创伤期间显著影响了福祉. 高度的童年虐待可能会缓冲大流行压力.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 创伤研究 创伤研究
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 集体创伤,如COVID-19大流行,可以加剧现有的脆弱性.
- 个人创伤 (虐待儿童,歧视) 和集体创伤之间的相互作用是研究不足的.
- 了解这些相互作用对于全球危机期间的心理健康支持至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 检查童年虐待暴露,感知歧视和COVID-19流行病的负面影响之间的关系.
- 调查这些因素如何预测大流行期间创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 症状.
- 识别有虐待和歧视历史的个人的特定弱点.
主要方法:
- 一项纵向研究涉及一个社区样本135名成年人.
- 在线调查收集了关于童年虐待,被认为是歧视以及与流行病相关的经历的数据.
- 用回归分析来确定负面COVID影响和PTSD症状的预测因素.
主要成果:
- 累积的童年虐待预测了负面的COVID影响.
- 负面的COVID影响与PTSD症状仅在儿童虐待水平较低的个体中相关.
- 高水平的童年虐待与持续高的PTSD症状有关,不管流行病的影响如何.
- 感知到的歧视与负面的COVID影响和PTSD症状相关.
结论:
- 高度累积的童年虐待可能为成人PTSD症状建立基线,可能独立于集体创伤.
- 儿童虐待较少的个体在面对严重的流行病相关压力时,更容易患上PTSD症状.
- 歧视大大削弱了与流行病相关的福祉,并导致了心理痛苦.
- 调查结果强调,需要在集体挑战期间为创伤历史的个人提供量身定制的支持.
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