{"id":229453,"date":"2026-01-21T01:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/emotional-abuse-predicts-self-loathing-more-strongly-than-other-childhood-traumas"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:37:27","slug":"emotional-abuse-predicts-self-loathing-more-strongly-than-other-childhood-traumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/emotional-abuse-predicts-self-loathing-more-strongly-than-other-childhood-traumas","title":{"rendered":"Emotional abuse predicts self-loathing more strongly than other childhood traumas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/emotional-abuse-predicts-self-loathing-more-strongly-than-other-childhood-traumas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that verbal mistreatment drives malignant self-regard more than other forms of trauma. Researchers found that internalized shame is most closely linked to emotional abuse, with distinct patterns emerging for men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that verbal mistreatment drives malignant self-regard more than other forms of trauma. Researchers found that internalized shame is most closely linked to emotional abuse, with distinct patterns emerging for men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}