Survey on Childhood Adversity and CPTSD Symptoms in 5,771 Chinese University Students

Chi Zhang's research dataset contains cross-sectional survey data from 5,771 Chinese university students, examining the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and complex post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. The data was collected for a study published on figshare in 2026, which analyzed emotional processing deficits and perceived social support as mediating and moderating factors. The dataset is 113.6 KB and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling the mediating role of emotional processing deficits based on survey scores linking childhood adversity to CPTSD symptoms.
• Analyzing the moderating effect of perceived social support based on survey data that attenuates the link between emotional deficits and symptoms.
• Comparing associations between cumulative adversity and different CPTSD symptom clusters (core PTSD vs. Disturbances in Self-Organization) based on the study's latent moderated structural equation modeling results.

Strengths

• Includes data from a substantial non-clinical sample of 5,771 participants.
• Focuses on a specific, understudied population of Chinese university students.
• Employs a latent moderated structural equation modeling (LMS) approach as described in the methodology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is cross-sectional, limiting causal inference from the described associations.

Provenance

Source

Chi Zhang via figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey administered to a non-clinical sample.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 05:28:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (university student population)