Examining mediators of the association between child maltreatment and sleep disturbance in college students.

Background: Childhood maltreatment has been associated with poorer mental and physical health across the lifespan, including disrupted sleep.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess four potential mediators of the association between child maltreatment and sleep in a sample of college students: daily rumination, perceptions of control over stressors, sleep hygiene, and distress.

Participants And Setting: University students (N = 234) completed self-report measures online.

Emerging adult college students' descriptions of exposure to childhood emotional abuse and associated factors: A qualitative exploration.

Background: Growing evidence on the long-term deleterious impacts of emotional abuse highlights the need to further understand childhood emotional abuse and its context to strengthen prevention efforts.

Objective: To describe emerging adults' experiences of emotional abuse in their childhoods and the household context surrounding that abuse.

Participants And Setting: Fifty-eight interviews were conducted with emerging adults, ages 18-25, recruited from four 2- and 4-year institutions of higher education.

Relations among daily stressors, childhood maltreatment, and sleep in college students.

This study aimed to assess (a) the within- and between-person associations between daily stress and sleep; (b) the relation between childhood maltreatment and sleep; and (c) whether the relation between stress and sleep was moderated by the extent of childhood maltreatment among college students. Participants ( = 181) comprised the active control group in a previous intervention study. Participants completed a self-report measure of childhood maltreatment and 14 daily self-report measures of stressor exposure and severity (evenings) and 6 sleep measures (e.