Maercker
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Interpersonal and socio-cognitive factors of recovery from posttraumatic stress disorder | ||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | To identify interpersonal and socio-cognitive factors mediating the recovery from PTSD, we developed two new measures: (i) Appreciation as victim, (ii) Disclosure of the trauma-report. First the measures’ preliminary versions were answered by 181 former political prisoners from East Germany. Both questionnaires yielded stable factor structures, showed excellent internal consistency and good test-retest reliability. They intercorrelated moderately. In the following study, the measures’ final versions were administered twice to 151 crime victims, together with a comprehensive measure-set (e.g. PTSD symptomatology, quality of life, trauma-related cognitions, cultural attitudes). The socio-cognitive and interpersonal factors showed unique variance in explaining PTSD symptomatology or quality of life. By today only data of time one are available. | ||||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Posttraumatic stress disorder, Crime victims, socio-cognitive and interpersonal predictors, recovery, disclosure, acknowledgement as a victim | ||||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Sep 1999 to Mar 2003 |