The structural model of the relationships between childhood trauma, cognitive bias, and depressive symptoms among a sample of university students

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Sohag university

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Abstract: the current study aimed to identify the level of prevalence of childhood trauma, cognitive bias, and depressive symptoms among a sample of university students, and to identify of the structural model of the relationships between childhood trauma, cognitive bias and depressive symptoms among university students. The study sample consisted of 316 students from the Faculty of Education, Sohag University, and applied a. Childhood trauma, prepared by Bernstein et al., (2003): translation by the two researchers, and the cognitive bias scale prepared by van der Gaag et al., (2013), translated by: Abdul Hamid, and the Beck Depression Scale, second edition: translated by: Gharib (2000), and The results of the study indicated that there was a high level of childhood trauma, a high level of cognitive bias and a high level of depressive symptoms among university students, Also, childhood trauma predicts depressive symptoms in college students, cognitive bias predicts depressive symptoms in college students, and childhood trauma predicts cognitive bias in college students, The two researchers also found a structural model that explains the relationship between childhood trauma and depressive symptoms in the presence of cognitive bias as a mediating variable between university students..

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