Measuring the Severity of Negative and Traumatic Events.

نویسندگان

  • David C Rubin
  • Nicole Feeling
چکیده

We devised three measures of the general severity of events, which raters applied to participants' narrative descriptions: 1) placing events on a standard normed scale of stressful events, 2) placing events into five bins based on their severity relative to all other events in the sample, and 3) an average of ratings of the events' effects on six distinct areas of the participants' lives. Protocols of negative events were obtained from two non-diagnosed undergraduate samples (n = 688 and 328), a clinically diagnosed undergraduate sample all of whom had traumas and half of whom met PTSD criteria (n = 30), and a clinically diagnosed community sample who met PTSD criteria (n = 75). The three measures of severity correlated highly in all four samples but failed to correlate with PTSD symptom severity in any sample. Theoretical implications for the role of trauma severity in PTSD are discussed.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science

دوره 1 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013