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@ARTICLE{Terock:145116,
      author       = {Terock, Jan and Van der Auwera, Sandra and Janowitz,
                      Deborah and Wittfeld, Katharina and Frenzel, Stefan and
                      Klinger-König, Johanna and Grabe, Hans J},
      title        = {{C}hildhood trauma and adult declarative memory performance
                      in the general population: {T}he mediating effect of
                      alexithymia},
      journal      = {Child abuse $\&$ neglect},
      volume       = {101},
      issn         = {0145-2134},
      address      = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
      publisher    = {Elsevier Science},
      reportid     = {DZNE-2020-00475},
      pages        = {104311},
      year         = {2020},
      abstract     = {Previous studies suggested that childhood maltreatment is
                      associated with altered memory performance in adulthood.
                      Deficits in identifying and describing feelings as captured
                      by the alexithymia construct are strongly linked with
                      childhood trauma and may mediate the associations with
                      memory function.To investigate the associations of childhood
                      trauma with verbal declarative memory performance and the
                      putative mediating role of alexithymia.Associations of the
                      different dimensions of childhood trauma with adult
                      declarative memory performance were tested in two large,
                      independent general population samples comprising a total of
                      N = 5574 participants. Moreover, we tested whether
                      associations were mediated by alexithymia.In both samples,
                      childhood emotional neglect, but not abuse emerged as a
                      negative statistical predictor of early (sample 1: β=-1.79;
                      p < 0.001, sample 2: β=-0.26; p < 0.001) as well as
                      delayed recall (β=-0.78; p < 0.001; β=-0.24;
                      p < 0.05). Likewise, childhood emotional neglect was the
                      strongest predictor for alexithymia (β = 3.2;
                      p < 0.001; β = 3.54; p < 0.001). Finally, the
                      association between childhood emotional neglect and early
                      (Total Mediated Effect (TME): 13.2, CI: 0.087-0.302; TME:
                      20.1; CI: 0.123-0.619) as well as late recall (TME: 13.2,
                      CI: 0.086-0.301; TME: 9; CI: -0.442-0.699) was significantly
                      mediated by alexithymia.Our findings suggest that childhood
                      emotional neglect is particularly detrimental to memory
                      functioning in adulthood. In comparison, childhood abuse was
                      not associated with reduced declarative memory capacity. Our
                      results contribute to explain the mechanism underlying the
                      relation of childhood trauma and memory deficits: Finding
                      specific associations with emotional neglect and a mediating
                      role of alexithymia highlights the relevance of emotion
                      processing capacities for memory functioning.},
      keywords     = {Adult / Adult Survivors of Child Abuse: psychology /
                      Affective Symptoms: epidemiology / Child / Child Abuse:
                      psychology / Child Abuse: statistics $\&$ numerical data /
                      Emotional Abuse: psychology / Emotional Abuse: statistics
                      $\&$ numerical data / Female / Humans / Male / Mediation
                      Analysis / Memory Disorders / Mental Recall / Middle Aged},
      cin          = {AG Grabe},
      ddc          = {370},
      cid          = {I:(DE-2719)5000001},
      pnm          = {344 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF3-344)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-344},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      pubmed       = {pmid:31877447},
      doi          = {10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104311},
      url          = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/145116},
}