@article{ref1,
title="The relationship between childhood trauma and medically self-sabotaging behaviors among psychiatric inpatients",
journal="International journal of psychiatry in medicine",
year="2008",
author="Sansone, Randy A. and Wiederman, Michael W. and McLean, Jamie S.",
volume="38",
number="4",
pages="469-479",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to explore the relationship between five forms of childhood trauma and medically self-sabotaging behaviors (i.e., the intentional induction, exaggeration, and/or exacerbation of medical symptoms). METHOD: Using a cross-sectional sample of convenience, 120 psychiatric inpatients were surveyed about childhood sexual, physical, and emotional abuses, the witnessing of violence, and physical neglect, as well as 19 medically self-sabotaging behaviors (i.e., intentional behaviors that represent attempts to sabotage medical care). RESULTS: As expected, in this sample there were high prevalence rates of trauma (62.5% emotional abuse, 58.3% witnessing of violence, 46.7% physical abuse, 37.5% sexual abuse, 28.3% physical neglect). Simple correlations demonstrated statistically significant relationships between sexual abuse and physical neglect and medically self-sabotaging behaviors. Using multiple regression analysis, only physical neglect remained a unique predictor of medically self-sabotaging behaviors. CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that among psychiatric inpatients there appears to be a relationship between physical neglect in childhood and the generation of medically self-sabotaging behaviors in adulthood. Perhaps physical neglect in childhood contributes to the generation of somatic behaviors in adulthood for the purpose of eliciting caring responses from others.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-2174",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}