Girls get by with a little help from their friends: gender differences in protective effects of social support for psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents

PURPOSE: To investigate whether social support is protective for psychotic experiences similarly among poly-victimised adolescent girls and boys. METHODS: We utilised data from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally-representative sample of 2232 UK-born twins. Particip...

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Autores principales: Crush, Eloise, Arseneault, Louise, Fisher, Helen L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6252120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30255382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-018-1599-6
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Sumario:PURPOSE: To investigate whether social support is protective for psychotic experiences similarly among poly-victimised adolescent girls and boys. METHODS: We utilised data from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally-representative sample of 2232 UK-born twins. Participants were privately interviewed at age 18 about victimisation, psychotic experiences, and social support during adolescence. RESULTS: Perceived social support (overall and from friends) was found to be protective against psychotic experiences amongst poly-victimised adolescent girls, but not boys. Though boys were similarly protected by family support. CONCLUSIONS: Social support-focused interventions targeting psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents may be more effective for girls. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00127-018-1599-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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