Background
Trauma experienced across the lifespan has been linked to a wide range of adverse mental health outcomes. However, the psychological mechanisms connecting betrayal trauma to later psychopathology remain insufficiently understood.
Objective
This cross-sectional study investigated associations between betrayal trauma during childhood and adulthood and adult psychopathology—specifically depressive symptoms and level of personality functioning within a dimensional model of personality disorders. We tested a path model examining direct and indirect associations between betrayal trauma at different developmental periods and adult psychopathology via dissociation and hypomentalizing.
Participants
A sample of 209 adults (61% female; aged 18–45 years; M = 29.7, SD = 7.88) were recruited from community and clinical settings in Poland.
Methods
Participants completed validated self-report measures assessing betrayal trauma, depressive symptoms, personality functioning (ICD-11 model), dissociation, and mentalizing. Path analyses with parallel mediation were conducted using SatorraBentler estimation and 5,000 bootstrap resamples to examine both direct and indirect associations.
Results
Both childhood and adulthood betrayal trauma were significantly associated with depressive symptoms and PD severity through dissociation and hypomentalizing [χ²(6) = 13.68, p = .033; CFI = 0.989; TLI = 0.931; RMSEA = 0.078; SRMR = 0.038]. No significant direct effects were observed once psychological processes were included. Mentalizing consistently demonstrated a stronger indirect association than dissociation across models. Adulthood betrayal trauma showed a greater total effect on depressive symptoms (β = .30; p < .001) than childhood trauma (β = .17; p = .043), whereas their effects on personality pathology were comparable (respectively, β = .21; p = .006 for adult trauma and β = .22; p = .008 for childhood trauma). For adulthood trauma and PD severity, the direct association was small and non-significant (β = −.06), whereas indirect effects via dissociation (β = .11) and mentalizing (β = .16) were positive, resulting in a positive total effect.
Conclusions
These findings indicate that the link between betrayal trauma and adult psychopathology may be best conceptualised in terms of co-occurring psychological processes rather than direct exposure effects. Hypomentalizing, in particular, appears to represent a key transdiagnostic mechanism connecting relational trauma across developmental stages with both mood and personality pathology.
his paper introduces a novel methodological framework for measuring variability in local policy implementation using the concept of “policy noise.” While local authorities’ discretion in implementing national policies is widely recognized as both a potential source of innovation and a challenge for policy coordination, the field lacks systematic tools for quantifying this variation. We address this gap by developing a set-theory-based measurement approach that enables systematic comparison of local policy implementation across structurally equivalent administrative units. The methodology captures variation across three dimensions: agenda-setting, types of solutions implemented, and resource allocation. Designed to be descriptive rather than prescriptive, this approach provides a foundation for empirical analysis without imposing normative judgments about optimal levels of variation. Although we demonstrate the methodology through an analysis of Polish municipalities’ responses to Ukrainian refugee education needs in 2022, the framework is applicable across policy domains – including health, environment, and social services – in which local authorities exercise implementation discretion within centrally-established parameters. This measurement approach offers researchers a new tool for investigating the dynamics of local policy implementation, enabling systematic study of the relationships between institutional arrangements, implementation variation, and policy outcomes.
Monografia zbiorowa dedykowana prof. Piotrowi Krasnemu zawiera 35 studiów autorstwa przyjaciół i uczniów profesora poświęconych teorii i historii sztuki, architekturze, malarstwu, rzeźbie i rzemiosłu. Ponadto w książce znajduje się omówienie sylwetki oraz dorobku naukowego i dydaktycznego Jubilata wraz z zestawioną bibliografią publikacji oraz prac dyplomowych napisanych pod jego kierunkiem.
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Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, which began in February 2022, combined with the new stage of the conflict in the Middle East that has been ongoing since October 2023, has created a threat to international security comparable to the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) or the high-profile crises in the Taiwan Strait. The analysis of the state of security through the prism of the theory of international relations once again confirms the accuracy of the assumptions of the school of political realism, referring to the factor of strength and power, determining the global and regional balance of power, including in the region of East Asia. There is no doubt that in the light of the ongoing war in Ukraine and the Middle East, conflicts and territorial disputes in East Asia are putting the superpowers, i.e. the US and China, to a unique test, especially in terms of their security management capabilities, both on a regional and global scale. The article examines the transformations in the field of security in the East Asian region2 with references to a global scale. The author shows how territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas, or especially tensions around Taiwan, remain, on the one hand, a factor generating new forms of cooperation between the security structures of the Euro-Atlantic area and the countries of East Asia, and on the other hand, they are a source of strengthening strategic ties between China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
