Depressive Symptoms After Trauma : Is Self-Esteem a Mediating Factor?

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Title
Depressive Symptoms After Trauma : Is Self-Esteem a Mediating Factor?
Journal
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Author(s)
David Melissa, Ceschi Grazia, Billieux Joël, Van der Linden Martial
ISSN
0022-3018
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2008
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
196
Number
10
Pages
735-742
Language
english
Abstract
: Traumatic events have predicted depressive symptoms.
Despite this consensus, it remains unclear as to whether the relationship between trauma and depression is consistently mediated by
a negative cognitive schema, such as low self-esteem, or whether
trauma influences mood independently of low self-esteem. This
study tested these relationships while considering depressive symptom types. One hundred thirty-two students reported the number of
traumatic events experienced and self-esteem and depression levels.
Results indicated 2 depressive symptom types: “cognitive-affective”
and “somatic.” Structural Equation Modeling tested an unmediated
path from trauma to depressive symptoms and a path mediated by
self-esteem. Results supported the unmediated relationship between
trauma and “cognitive-affective” depressive symptoms, and did not
support mediation by self-esteem. Findings are discussed in view of
a dimensional rather than categorical approach to depression, and in
consideration of alternative symptom clusters resulting from trauma
in addition to those captured by posttraumatic stress disorder.
Keywords
Psychiatry and Mental health, Trauma, Self-esteem, PTSD, Depression
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