Post-traumatic stress: Attributional aspects
โ Scribed by Stephen Joseph; William Yule; Ruth Williams
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 747 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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โฆ Synopsis
Although exposure to a traumatic event i s 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 seventy of symptoms remains unaccounted for. In this paper, evidence will be reviewed for the possible mediating role of causal attributions and attnbutional syle. It i s suggested that these factors may be related to specific emotional states within PTSD and to particular coping behaviors.
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