ABSTRACT

Child abuse victims often experience sleep problems, but the possible underlying mediators between them are not well known. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep quality and child abuse through the mediation role of alexithymia in a sample of 200 students of Tabriz University. The results show that child abuse experience and its components (emotional, physical, sexual abuse, and neglect) were significantly associated with low sleep quality and greater level of alexithymia. Findings of the structural equation model unveiled that child abuse experience and its components directly predicted sleep quality. Alexithymia was also a good mediator for the relationship between sleep quality and child abuse. This result suggests that alexithymia might be one mechanism linking sleep quality and child abuse.

摘要

虐待儿童的受害者经常会遇到睡眠问题，但他们之间可能存在的潜在中介因素尚不清楚。本研究旨在通过述情障碍在大不里士大学 200 名学生的样本中的中介作用来调查睡眠质量与虐待儿童之间的关系。结果表明，虐待儿童的经历及其组成部分（情感、身体、性虐待和忽视）与低睡眠质量和更高程度的述情障碍显着相关。结构方程模型的结果揭示了虐待儿童的经历及其组成部分直接预测了睡眠质量。述情障碍也是睡眠质量与虐待儿童之间关系的良好中介。这一结果表明述情障碍可能是将睡眠质量与虐待儿童联系起来的一种机制。