Exploring Psychosocial Mediators of the Associations of Lifetime Trauma and Body Mass Index in African American Women

摘要

Purpose: This study sought to examine the association between lifetime trauma (i.e., childhood, adulthood, and cumulative) and body mass index (BMI) and if this association was mediated by psychosocial factors (i.e., depressive symptoms and stress) in a sample of African American women.