Micro-Activity #14: Continue Drafting the Annotations

Sirota, Marcia. “Lingering Childhood Trauma Can Manifest As Conflict In The Workplace.” HuffPost Canada, HuffPost Canada, 19 Mar. 2018, www.huffingtonpost.ca/marcia-sirota/childhood-trauma-workplace-

“Lingering childhood trauma can manifest as conflict in the workplace” is an article written by Marcia Sirota , She is a doctor who is sharing her expertise as a doctor. The article begins by analyzing the behavior of people who have experienced childhood trauma and how that manifests in the workplace. Dr. Sirota places these people into different categories, mistreatment, exploitation, abuse or a lack of love or approval. People who have experienced lack of love or approval can be “people pleasers” in the work place. “People pleasers” often doormats or tolerate disrespect in the search of love or approval they have never received. These people try to avoid conflict as much as possible they also do everything possible to make their boss happy. They experience being bullied and disrespected at work. This leads into our next point about children who were mistreated whether it be verbally or physically . These individuals tend to believe that mistreatment in the workplace is expected because that is what they think they “deserve”. The next category of people is “abused”. People who have experienced abuse in their childhood end up mirroring the behavior of their abuser. This results in these people becoming abusive, toxic adults in their work environment.

The final group is “exploitation”. These individuals are people who have been exploited by their caregivers and their belief is the only way to “fit in” is to allow people to exploit you. This looks like overworking yourself or doing the work nobody else wants to do.

 

This article taught me a great deal of information about my research question on how early childhood traumas effect us as adults, it showed me how people with childhood trauma react to certain situations at work and why. The article also showed me why certain people might take on more work then they can handle . The information I can use to help me understand the article better is more solid data in terms of numbers. I wish there was more information on sample size , how long she studied these people for and what kind of work environments she studied them in . I have worked  with different people in past jobs that have exhibited this behavior, this is why I do agree with the author and her point of view on how people display traumatic behavior  at work based off their childhood trauma due to my personal experiences. I like the language the  author uses, the article is very informative. The author is also credible which makes this article reliable. 

 

They’re so deeply wounded that they end up just like their “role models” — the abusive adults who hurt them as children

 

The more they try to please, the more these people are disrespected, and even held in contempt by the other people at their workplace.

 

RH. Friis, HU. Wittchen, et al. “Childhood Trauma and Adult Interpersonal Relationship Problems in Patients with Depression and Anxiety Disorders.” Annals of General Psychiatry, BioMed Central, 1 Jan. 1970,

The primary research article “Childhood trauma and adult interpersonal relationship problems in patients with depression and anxiety disorders” is a study done in south Korea on how childhood traumas can effect adult intrapersonal relationships  . The article is about a study done on 325 patients in south Korea who were diagnosed with depression and anxiety ,they completed a questionnaire which then was measured on a scale that consisted of five categories. Physical neglect, physical abuse ,emotional neglect, emotional abuse and sexual abuse.

The researchers that conducted this study were drawn to this topic because there are so few studies done on the relationship between childhood traumas and the lack of adult interpersonal relationships, however there is a lot of evidence that childhood trauma and adult relationships as well as social behavior is linked. This is what resulted in this study and the results to follow. 

The study took place over the course of one  year,  the patients first went to see a psychiatrist to see how severe their anxiety and depression was, and if they were an appropriate candidate for the study. The pool of candidates dropped from 351 patients to 325,  these  patients then began clinical trials. Patients then answered questions and were graded on a number scale of 1 to 21 and different numbers corresponded to different types of neglect or abuse . If you scored greater then 12 you suffered from emotional abuse if you scored between 9-12 you suffered from physical abuse and if you scored from7-9 then you suffered from sexual abuse . If you scored 18 or 21 then it meant you suffered from physical or emotional trauma .

The results of the study were intriguing . The evidence shows that a lot of the individual   struggle with with intimate relationships later in life because they have secure attachment issues. So it can be be inferred that because the individuals had these early childhood traumas they now have interpersonal relationship issues   as adults. Also individual with severe anxiety and and depression issues in the study reported higher levels of dominant /controlling behavior  or intrusive  and needy behavior .

This article really taught me how much of a difference childhood traumas can make in an individuals life with their intra personnel relationships. A surprising fact that  I learned was that physical abuse   is in both depressive disorders and anxiety disorder. One piece of information I would have liked the author to include, for me to have a better understanding was how often did the patients meet with the psychiatrist in the 12 month span . I also learned a lot about my research question because now this information confirms my argument that childhood trauma has an adverse effect on intrapersonal relationships’. I do agree with the text because it was conducted by certified scientist and the sample size was considerably  large at 325 participants. Also   Based off of charts in the  study information was  consistent with this big of a sample size .

“Patients with depressive disorder reported more childhood emotional abuse (30.1% vs 14.4%, p = 0.001) and physical abuse (45.1% vs 26.7%, p < 0.001)” 

“during the 12-month study period between August 2012 and July 2013, patients who first visited Mood and Anxiety Disorders Unit at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, and met the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for depressive and/or anxiety disorders were recruited consecutively. Diagnosis was conducted by a psychiatrist (JHC) using semi-structured diagnostic interviews of the Mini-International.”