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Similarly, we would expect sexual abuse to be linked to the emergence of psychotic symptoms, through effects on negative affect.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S003329172300185X_sec_a2\" sec-type=\"methods\"><jats:title>Method<\/jats:title><jats:p>We analysed English data from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys, carried out in 2007 (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> = 5954) and 2014 (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> = 5946), based on representative national samples living in private households. We used probabilistic graphical models represented by directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). We obtained measures of persecutory ideation and auditory hallucinosis from the Psychosis Screening Questionnaire, and identified affective symptoms using the Clinical Interview Schedule. We included cannabis consumption and sex as they may determine the relationship between symptoms. We constrained incoming edges to sexual abuse and bullying to respect temporality.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S003329172300185X_sec_a3\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In the DAG analyses, contrary to our expectations, paranoia appeared early in the cascade of relationships, close to the abuse variables, and generally lying upstream of affective symptoms. Paranoia was consistently directly antecedent to hallucinations, but also indirectly so, via non-psychotic symptoms. Hallucinosis was also the endpoint of pathways involving non-psychotic symptoms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S003329172300185X_sec_a4\" sec-type=\"conclusions\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Via worry, sexual abuse and bullying appear to drive a range of affective symptoms, and in some people, these may encourage the emergence of hallucinations. The link between adverse experiences and paranoia is much more direct. 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