In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Association of Social Psychology

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Al-Zahra University (S), Tehran, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between traumatic childhood experiences and executive functions with the mediating role of emotional processing. This research was a type of correlation study and structural equation model. The statistical population of the study consisted of all the students of Tehran city, from which 270 people from Al-Zahra University (S) were selected using available sampling. To collect data, the childhood trauma questionnaire (Bernstein et al., 2003), the executive skills questionnaire (Street et al., 2019), and the emotional processing scale (Baker et al., 2007) were used. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation test and structural equation modeling with the help of Amos24 and SPSS22 software. The findings of this research indicated that the relationship between traumatic childhood experiences and executive functions is significant. Also, the model of the mediating role of emotional processing in the relationship between traumatic childhood experiences and executive functions had a favorable fit. Bootstrap results also indicated the impact of traumatic childhood experiences on executive functions through the mediating role of emotional processing. As a result, it can be said that the emotional processing variable has a significant mediating role in the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and executive functions. Therefore, it is necessary to act through information and awareness in the field of negative cognitive consequences of traumatic childhood experiences to prevent or intervene early in this field.

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