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Childhood Emotional Maltreatment as a Robust Predictor of Suicidal Ideation: A 3-Year Multi-Wave, Prospective Investigation

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Despite literature suggesting a relationship between child maltreatment and suicidal ideation, few studies have examined the prospective course of this relationship. The current study examined this relationship in a sample of 682 community youth who were followed over the course of 3 years. Repeated measures of suicidal ideation, emotional maltreatment, and depressive symptom severity were examined in multi-wave path analysis models. Overall, results suggest that emotional maltreatment over time contributes uniquely to the prospective prediction of suicidal ideation, even when controlling for age, previous suicidal ideation, biological sex, and depression symptom severity. Unlike previous studies that have only measured emotional maltreatment at one-time point, the current study demonstrates that emotional maltreatment contributes unique risk to suicidal ideation prospectively among youth. Results speak to the importance of examining emotional maltreatment and suicidal ideation within prospective models of risk and suggest that emotional maltreatment is a robust predictor of suicidal ideation, over and above history of suicidal ideation and depression.

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  1. In both figures, only the direct paths specified in the model are depicted to ease interpretation. In both models, we allowed each concurrent variable (Emotional Maltreatment, Suicide, and Depression [Model 2]) to covary in order to capture the concurrent relationships among those variables.

  2. We restricted our sample to only those with valid Time 3 suicidal ideation data in order to test the sensitivity of our results. Results were identical in strength and significance patterns compared to the full sample. Results from the full sample are presented.

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  1. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 235 E. Cameron Ave, CB #3270, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    Adam Bryant Miller

  2. Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Jessica L. Jenness

  3. Western Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburg, PA, USA

    Caroline W. Oppenheimer

  4. McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Andrea L. Barrocas Gottleib

  5. Department of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Jami F. Young

  6. Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Benjamin L. Hankin

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Miller, A.B., Jenness, J.L., Oppenheimer, C.W. et al. Childhood Emotional Maltreatment as a Robust Predictor of Suicidal Ideation: A 3-Year Multi-Wave, Prospective Investigation. J Abnorm Child Psychol 45, 105–116 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-016-0150-z

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