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The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating roles of anxiety sensitivity and body dissatisfaction in the relationship between childhood trauma and eating attitudes in college students. This correlational and path analysis research included students aged 18 to 25 years from Kharazmi University of Tehran, studying in the second semester of the 1402 academic year. A total of 422 students were selected by convenience sampling. The research instruments included the 26-item version of Garner et al.'s eating attitude test (1982), the revised anxiety sensitivity index of Taylor and Cox (1998), the body shape questionnaire of Cooper et al. (1987), and the childhood trauma questionnaire of Bernstein et al. (2003). The findings indicated a good fit between the data and the model. The results showed that there is a direct and significant relationship between childhood trauma, anxiety sensitivity and body dissatisfaction with eating attitudes. Also, childhood trauma have a direct and significant relationship with anxiety sensitivity and body dissatisfaction. In addition, anxiety sensitivity has a direct and significant relationship with body dissatisfaction. Also, body dissatisfaction and anxiety sensitivity play a mediating role in the relationship between childhood trauma and eating attitudes.

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The aim of the present study was to investigate the prediction of empathy impairment based on childhood trauma, mediated by theory of mind deficits, among female university students. This study is applied in purpose and descriptive-correlational in methodology. The statistical population consisted of all female students at Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, in Khordad 1404. The sample size was 210 individuals, determined using Cochran's formula (2023) and selected via convenience sampling.To measure the research variables, the short form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire by Bernstein et al. (2003), the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test by Baron-Cohen et al. (2001), and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index by Davis (1991, note: corrected from "Batson") were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 28 and Amos version 24 software, employing Pearson correlation and path analysis. Results indicated that the research model had good fit (p<0.05). Childhood trauma predicted theory of mind deficits (β=0.484) and empathy impairment (β=0.435). Theory of mind deficits also predicted empathy impairment (β=0.299). Additionally, theory of mind deficits mediated the relationship between childhood trauma and empathy impairment among female students (β=0.145).Thus, it can be concluded that childhood trauma predicted empathy impairment in female students through the mediation of theory of mind deficits.