Anxiety sensitivity and grit as mediators between childhood abuse and relapse risk for substance use.

CONCLUSIONS: Anxiety sensitivity may be an important construct linking child abuse to relapse risk. Although grit may not mediate the effect of child abuse on relapse risk, it may be clinically relevant to relapse risk. As this sample consisted of treatment-seeking adults, the generalizability of results to other populations is uncertain. Future studies should investigate interventions targeting these constructs in this population.
PMID: 32559552 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - June 15, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: King CD, Hilton BT, Greenfield SF, McHugh RK, Griffin ML, Weiss RD, Ressler KJ Tags: Child Abuse Negl Source Type: research