Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2011 Aug;26(12):2499-516. doi: 10.1177/0886260510383033. Epub 2010 Sep 9.
The association between trauma exposure and mental health-related challenges such as depression are well documented in the research literature. The assumptive world theory was used to explore this relationship in 97 female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Participants completed self-report questionnaires that assessed trauma history, world assumptions, and depression severity. Regression analyses revealed that diminished world assumptions mediate the relationship between trauma exposure and depression severity. As predicted, this relationship held for interpersonal forms of trauma, whereas noninterpersonal forms of trauma were related neither to diminished world assumption nor to depression severity. This suggests that our conceptual system of relating to the world, our core beliefs that comprise our assumptive world, may be challenged in the face of human-induced trauma, increasing our risk for developing adverse psychological outcomes such as depression.
创伤暴露与心理健康相关挑战（如抑郁）之间的关联在研究文献中已有充分记录。本研究运用假设世界理论，在 97 名亲密伴侣暴力幸存者中探索了这种关系。参与者完成了自我报告问卷，评估了创伤史、世界假设和抑郁严重程度。回归分析显示，世界假设的减弱程度在创伤暴露与抑郁严重程度之间起中介作用。正如预测的那样，这种关系适用于人际形式的创伤，而非人际形式的创伤既与世界假设的减弱程度无关，也与抑郁严重程度无关。这表明，我们与世界的关系的概念系统，即构成我们假设世界的核心信念，可能会在面对人为创伤时受到挑战，增加我们产生如抑郁等不良心理后果的风险。
