Anticipating future threats: Evidence for association, but not interaction, of childhood adversity and identity development with threat anticipation in adolescence KU Leuven
AIM: Childhood adversity may result in a negative expectation of future interactions with others, also referred to as 'threat anticipation'. It may also negatively impact on identity development, which subsequently may influence how individuals deal with their environment. Here, we examine the hypotheses that (1) identity synthesis is associated with reduced anticipation of threat, whereas the opposite would be true for identity confusion, and ...