Confidants' feedback and traumatic life events

✍ Scribed by Anita E. Kelly; Matthew E. Coenen; Benjamin L. Johnston

• Book ID: 102447836
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 422 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490080112

✦ Synopsis

One hundred six undergraduate (83 women and 23 men) completed surveys concerning their most traumatic life event, the feedback they received following their disclosure of the event to others, and how they felt after the disclosure. Results indicated that the better they felt afrer disclosure, the less disturbed they were by thoughts of the event at the time of the study. In addition, the more personal the trauma was, the worse they felt after their disclosure, and the more disturbed they were about the trauma. However, no significant relation existed between the positivity (e.g., supportiveness) of their confidant's feedback and their present degree of disturbance. Implications for understanding the complex relation between conjkling traumatic events and resolving feelings surrounding those events were discussed.