Quality of Memories in Women Abused by Their Intimate Partner: Analysis of Traumatic and Nontraumatic Narratives
| Autor: | Violeta Fernández-Lansac, María Crespo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Intimate partner 05 social sciences Present tense Traumatic memories Affect (psychology) 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Severity of illness medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Narrative Young adult medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Traumatic Stress. 30:80-87 |
| ISSN: | 0894-9867 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/jts.22154 |
| Popis: | Traditional models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) claim that the high emotional intensity of traumatic events leads to deficits in the voluntary access of traumatic memories. This may result in disorganized narratives, with a high sense of emotional and sensory reliving. Alternatively, the basic mechanisms view suggests that high arousal leads to more available involuntary and voluntary memories. Traumatic narratives would not be impaired; indeed, they would be immersive and rich in detail. To test this perspective, this study compared the trauma narratives of 50 battered women (trauma-exposed group) with narratives about positive experiences and narratives of 50 nonexposed women (controls), and analyzed the relationship between trauma narrative aspects and the severity of PTSD. Results showed that trauma narratives were detailed, oriented, and coherent. Affective process words and emotional tone were related to trauma centrality and anxiety during disclosure, and predicted the severity of PTSD (R2 = .26). These variables, together with the use of present tense verbs, accounted for a significant variance in intrusions (R2 = .34). As hypothesized, narrative aspects related to a sense of reliving and narrative immersion were better predictors of PTSD than aspects reflecting impaired access to voluntary traumatic memories. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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