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The Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Interpersonal Relationship Dimensions in Individuals with Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mediating Role of Anger Rumination

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Background: Childhood traumas (CTs) affect the etiology of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and the interpersonal relationship dimensions (IRDs) in these individuals. Traumatic experiences are related to anger control problems and interpersonal relationships (IRs) in these individuals. In this study, individuals diagnosed with GAD and healthy controls (HC) were compared in terms of CTs, IRDs, and anger ruminations (ARs), and the mediating role of ARs in the relationship between CTs and IRDs in individuals with GAD was tried to be determined. Methods: Patients who applied to the Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic of Sultan II. Abdulhamid Han Education and Research Hospital and were diagnosed with GAD according to DSM-V diagnostic criteria (n = 378) and the HC group (n = 195) was evaluated in terms of demographic variables, CTs, IRDs, and ARs. Findings: < .001) in the patient group. ARs were found to have a mediating role in the relationship between CTs and IRDs. Conclusion: Our results suggest that CTs are associated with ARs in individuals diagnosed with GAD and therefore increase the tendency to have problems with IRs. Evaluating ARs at the beginning of the treatment process in GAD individuals is important both in terms of contributing to the treatment process of the disease and determining the risk factors or supradiagnostic factors that maintain the disease.

Source: Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology

DOI: 10.5152/pcp.2025.251095

Authors: Özgür Maden, Gözde Avcı Büyükdoğan

Institution: Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi

Language: English

Topic: Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $590