Sleep Quality and Child Abuse: The Mediating Role of Alexithymia

Autor/inn/en	Bakhshesh-Boroujeni, Michael; Farajpour-Niri, Sepideh; Karimi, Ali
Titel	Sleep Quality and Child Abuse: The Mediating Role of Alexithymia
Quelle	In: Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 26 (2021) 3, S.254-263 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bakhshesh-Boroujeni, Michael) ORCID (Farajpour-Niri, Sepideh) ORCID (Karimi, Ali)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-2752
DOI	10.1080/13632752.2021.1958498
Schlagwörter	Sleep; Child Abuse; Emotional Disturbances; Correlation; Victims; Trauma; Stress Variables; Young Adults; Undergraduate Students; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Personality Traits; Children; Early Experience; Foreign Countries; Coping; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schlaf; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Gefühlsstörung; Korrelation; Victim; Opfer; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Frühbeginn; Ausland; Bewältigung
Abstract	Child abuse victims often experience sleep problems, but the possible underlying mediators between them are not well known. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep quality and child abuse through the mediation role of alexithymia in a sample of 200 students of Tabriz University. The results show that child abuse experience and its components (emotional, physical, sexual abuse, and neglect) were significantly associated with low sleep quality and greater level of alexithymia. Findings of the structural equation model unveiled that child abuse experience and its components directly predicted sleep quality. Alexithymia was also a good mediator for the relationship between sleep quality and child abuse. This result suggests that alexithymia might be one mechanism linking sleep quality and child abuse. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01