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Early negative life events during childhood and social anxietyin adulthood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

C. Binelli ,
A. Ortiz ,
E. Gelabert ,
J.A. Crippa ,
S. Subirà  and
R. Martin-Santos
C. Binelli
Affiliation:
Corporació Sanitaria Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Brazil Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Brazil
A. Ortiz
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinic, UB, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, Brazil
E. Gelabert
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Brazil
J.A. Crippa
Affiliation:
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Riberao Pretto, Brazil
S. Subirà
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Brazil
R. Martin-Santos
Affiliation:
Hospital Clinic, UB, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, Brazil

Abstract

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Background

Although there is considerable evidence on the impact of negative life events during childhood on the etiology of psychiatric disorders, little is known about the specific influence on the social anxiety disorder. The objective of the study was to examine this association.

Method

In a cross-sectional survey in 571 university students we analysed the association between loss of someone close, emotional abuse, physical abuse, family violence and sexual abuse with social anxiety assessed by the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale.

Results

Twenty percent of the sample had social anxiety and 50,6% had an early negative life events in childhood. After controlling for family psychiatric history and gender only family violence was associated with an increased risk of social anxiety (OR = 4.63; 95%CI = 1.13–18.9).

Conclusions

This study found childhood family violence associated with social phobia in university students.

Type
P01-140
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 140
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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