@article{ref1,
title="Adverse childhood experiences, religious/spiritual struggles, and mental health symptoms: examination of mediation models",
journal="Mental health, religion and culture",
year="2017",
author="McCormick, Wesley H. and Carroll, Timothy D. and Sims, Brook M. and Currier, Joseph",
volume="20",
number="10",
pages="1042-1054",
abstract="Emerging research has documented greater risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression among young adults with prior adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Building upon prior findings, we hypothesised that religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles may serve as an intervening pathway through which accumulation of ACEs impacts mental health symptom severity in this population. Young adults (N = 458) were recruited from a southeastern university to complete an online self-report survey that assessed for ACEs, lifetime trauma exposure, R/S struggles, PTSD and depressive symptomatology. Bivariate correlations yielded significant positive relationships between ACEs and all six types of R/S struggles, depression, and PTSD. Additionally, when accounting for non-childhood trauma exposure, the mediational analyses indicated an indirect effect of struggles with ultimate meaning on the well-establish association between ACEs and mental health symptoms. Clinical implications (such as the importance of fostering meaning making), study limitations, and future research directions are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1367-4676",
doi="10.1080/13674676.2018.1440544",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2018.1440544"
}