Post-traumatic stress: Attributional aspects

Journal of Traumatic Stress - Tập 6 - Trang 501-513 - 1993
Stephen Joseph1, William Yule2, Ruth Williams2
1Department of Psychology, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Northern Ireland
2Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK

Tóm tắt

Although exposure to a traumatic event is thought to be the main aetiological factor in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD: APA, 1987), a large amount of individual variance in the chronicity and severity of symptoms remains unaccounted for. In this paper, evidence will be reviewed for the possible mediating role of causal attributions and attributional style. It is suggested that these factors may be related to specific emotional states within PTSD and to particular coping behaviors.

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