| Autor: |
Cohodes EM; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA., Sisk LM; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA., Keding TJ; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.; Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA., Mandell JD; Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA., Notti ME; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA., Gee DG; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. |
| Abstrakt: |
Key theoretical frameworks have proposed that examining the impact of exposure to specific dimensions of stress at specific developmental periods is likely to yield important insight into processes of risk and resilience. Utilizing a sample of N = 549 young adults who provided a detailed retrospective history of their lifetime exposure to numerous dimensions of traumatic stress and ratings of their current trauma-related symptomatology via completion of an online survey, here we test whether an individual's perception of their lifetime stress as either controllable or predictable buffered the impact of exposure on trauma-related symptomatology assessed in adulthood. Further, we tested whether this moderation effect differed when evaluated in the context of early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood stress. Consistent with hypotheses, results highlight both stressor controllability and stressor predictability as buffering the impact of traumatic stress exposure on trauma-related symptomatology and suggest that the potency of this buffering effect varies across unique developmental periods. Leveraging dimensional ratings of lifetime stress exposure to probe heterogeneity in outcomes following stress - and, critically, considering interactions between dimensions of exposure and the developmental period when stress occurred - is likely to yield increased understanding of risk and resilience following traumatic stress. |
