SynthesisChild maltreatment2024
The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Relationship between online social support and problematic internet use: a three-level meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of longitudinal risk and protective factors for loneliness in youth.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Pooled it
- (Anti)-mattering and its association with child maltreatment and loneliness: evidence from the German versions of the general mattering and anti-mattering scales.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Childhood maltreatment and joint trajectories of social isolation and depression as predictors of cognitive impairment in late midlife: a prospective cohort study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2026Article
- The associations of childhood and adolescence psychosocial risks with social relations in midlife.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Childhood Sexual Abuse and Rates of Loneliness in Adulthood.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Child Maltreatment and Harsh Parenting: The Role of Maternal Chronic Relational Strains.Child maltreatment · 2026Article
- Loneliness is linked to psychological pain in both euthymic patients and healthy controls: a cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- A dual-path mediation model: associations between childhood psychological maltreatment and loneliness among Chinese college students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Social circuits under developmental threat: Bridging rodent and human neuroscience.Developmental review : DR · 2025Article
- Review
- Profiles of Childhood Maltreatment and Defenses: Associations with Personality Functioning in Emerging Adulthood.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2025Article
- A psychoneuroimmunological underpinnings of the relationship between childhood trauma, loneliness, and depression in older adults.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Path to Loneliness for Psychiatric Patients: A Qualitative Study of a Journey Marked by Pain, Hopelessness, Prosocial Signaling Deficits, and Coping Strategies That Are Not Effective.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2025Article
- Developing loneliness interventions for people with personality disorders: A call to action.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- The Key Role of Personality Functioning in Understanding the Link Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Loneliness: A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- You say it's not me: the influence of offering external explanations of rejection and acceptance behavior on the perception of benevolence in borderline personality disorder.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2024Article
- Childhood maltreatment is linked to larger preferred interpersonal distances towards friends and strangers across the globe.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Childhood Neglect and Loneliness: The Unique Roles of Parental Figure and Child Sex.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Predictors and moderators of outcome of ICBT for loneliness with guidance or automated messages - A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2024Article
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Abstract
While there is evidence that child maltreatment is positively associated with loneliness, the strength of this association is not yet clear. It is also unclear whether the magnitude and statistical significance of this association varies across groups of individuals. Therefore, this meta-analysis examines whether there are differences in loneliness between individuals with and without maltreatment histories, and which factors may influence the association between child maltreatment and loneliness. A three-level meta-analysis was conducted on 52 studies reporting 116 effect sizes (
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