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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"PTSD symptomatology;"”.
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Vicarious Traumatization in Therapists: Contributing Factors, PTSD Symptomatology, and Cognitive Distortions
… current stressfulness of personal trauma predict PTSD symptoms, while variables that include vicarious exposure to trauma and perceived social support predict hyperarousal symptoms and cognitive distortions above and beyond the effects of therapists' personal variables. Qualitative results …
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Military Veteran Status and PTSD Symptomatology among Urban Firefighters: The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties
… of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. The current study examined the moderating role of emotion regulation difficulties in the association between military veteran status and PTSD symptom severity in firefighters. Covariates included trauma load, number of years in …
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The case of adult Bosnian Muslim male refugees in Chicago: Current health behavior outcomes and PTSD symptomatology
… the presence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptomatology and health behavior outcomes. The study also examined the severity of PTSD symptomatology and particular health behaviors, among adult Bosnian Muslim male refugees residing in the greater Chicago area more than a decade after …
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Intimate Partner Violence As a Risk Factor for PTSD in Female Survivors of Domestic Violence: A Meta-Analysis
… (IPV) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptomatology in female survivors of domestic violence. The first meta-analysis investigated the relationship between physical violence and PTSD symptomatology while the second meta-analysis investigated the relationship between psychological …
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The Role of Hardiness in Moderating Parenting Stress in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans
… the relationship between combat- related PTSD symptomatology and parenting stress, as well as the moderating influence of hardiness in this relationship in a sample of 117 modern veterans. Results supported hypotheses predicting a positive relationship between PTSD symptomatology and …
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Posttraumatic Outcome of Intimate Partner Violence: An Examination of Risk Factors
… risk factors for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) outcomes following IPV exposure. A community sample (N = 244) of adult females was recruited to assist in elucidating the relation between IPV victimization and PTSD symptomatology. IPV victimization and PTSD symptomatology were found to be …
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Assessment of trauma symptomatology in adults with intellectual disabilities: validation of the Lancaster and Northgate Trauma Scales
… the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology have been hampered by the absence of a validated and suitable assessment tool. The aim of this study, therefore, was to further examine the psychometric properties of a recently developed measure, the Lancaster and Northgate …
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Children's Religious Coping Following Residential Fires: An Exploratory Study
… the study evaluated its role in predicting PTSD symptomatology over an extended period of time. This investigation included 140 children and adolescents (ages 8-18). Factor analyses of the RCAS revealed a 6-factor solution very similar to the factor structure in the original study. This …
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Coping Efforts and Efficacy, Acculturation, and Post-Traumatic Symptomatology in Adolescents following Wildfire: A Latent Variable Path Analysis
… a causal link between fire disaster and PTSD related psychological distress. Not everyone, however, is equally affected by the stress of experiencing such an event, and the role of coping in this process may be an important mediating factor. Additionally, several studies have found that …
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Imaginal flooding as a supplemental treatment for Vietnam veterans suffering re-experiencing stress
… the inclusion of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a new classification in the DSM III. With symptoms of re-experiencing, emotional numbing, hyper-alertness, sleep disturbance, survival guilt and avoidance, PTSD can be extremely disruptive of social, intellectual, and occupational …
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PTSD: A Predictor of Pain Severity in Fibromyalgia Patients
… event. As posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is also preceded by a traumatic event and has been associated with chronic pain and FM, the relationship between three variables (traumatic events, pain severity, and PTSD) is evaluated. This study examined data from 26 participants who …
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Posttraumatic stress among children in automobile accidents
… Results indicated a range of posttraumatic symptomatology among accident victims. Despite low levels of physical injury, approximately one fourth of the sample children reported moderate to severe levels of trauma. As expected, higher injury levels were related to more PTSD symptoms on the …
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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Attachment, and PTSD Symptoms Among Male Offenders in Court-Ordered Diversion
… experiences (ACEs), attachment style, and PTSD symptoms were studied in a sample of adult male participants in a court-ordered diversion program. The sample consisted of 59 men, ranging in age from 19 to 68-years-old, who endorsed a history of at least one prior arrest. Data were collected …
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Coping Strategies of Neurology Nurses who Experience Verbal and Physical Abuse from Patients and Families
… coping strategies utilized, predictors of PTSD symptomatology, differences in genders on types of violence and the effects of verbal and physical abuse on coping strategy utilization. The findings of the study enriches the current literature by confirming the occurrence of verbal and …
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The impact of experiential avoidance on the relationships among military sexual trauma, excessive behaviors, and health-related outcomes in female veterans
… potential outcomes such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, physical health concerns, and engagement in excessive/problem behaviors. Within this sample, 29.2% of respondents endorsed exposure to MST. Subsequent mediation and moderation analyses were computed and it was determined that experiential …
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THE INFLUENCE OF SELF-EFFICACY IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VARIANTS OF SELF-BLAME AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS
… depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. Research shows that self-blaming attributions are directly linked to distress (Walsh, & Foshee, 1998; Walsh & Bruce, 2011). More specifically, the type of self-blame (i.e., behavioral and characterological) an individual …
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Brain Injury in Battered Women: Prevalence and Relationship to Cognitive Functioning and Psychopathology
… two facets of psychopathology, depression and PTSD symptomatology. This relationship could not be accounted for by partner abuse severity. Finally, I demonstrated that abuse severity was related to executive processing, but primarily via brain injury severity. The results of this study suggest …
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What happens to the mental health of United Kingdom personnel when they return home from Afghanistan?
… this issue found a significant increase in PTSD symptoms over time. This highlighted the need for measurement of poor mental health symptomatology at more than one time point. The current research aimed to: a.compare rates of mental ill health among military personnel upon completion of …
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Pediatric Amputations: PTSD, Behavioral Tendencies and Quality of Life
… The goal of this study was to assess symptoms of PTSD, provide a description of the internalized and externalized behaviors, and examine the quality of life (QOL)(health habits, school work, physical fitness, social support, emotional feelings, and family communications) expressed by …
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DOES CONTROL MEDIATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-COMPLEXITY AND POSTTRAUMATIC PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT?
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop following exposure to actual or threatened traumatic experiences. Research has shown that experiencing a trauma may alter, disrupt or distort ones identity. This thesis focused on the relationship between self-complexity (SC; Linville, 1985, 1987) …
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