The Symptoms of Trauma Scale (SOTS): Psychometric evaluation and gender differences with adults diagnosed with serious mental illness
| Autor: | Kristina Muenzenmaier, Dorothy Castille, Irina Komarovskaya, Andres R. Schneeberger, Lewis A. Opler, Bruce G. Link, Julian D. Ford |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male 050103 clinical psychology medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject New York Dissociative Disorders Anger Complex ptsd Life Change Events Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Sex Factors Internal consistency Interview Psychological medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Longitudinal Studies Psychiatry Psychological abuse media_common Aged Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Mental Disorders 05 social sciences Middle Aged Mental illness medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Posttraumatic stress Convergent validity Female Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of traumadissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD). 18(4) |
| ISSN: | 1529-9740 |
| Popis: | A new clinician rating measure, the Symptoms of Trauma Scale (SOTS), was administered to adult psychiatric outpatients (46 men, 47 women) with severe mental illness who reported a history of trauma exposure and had recently been discharged from inpatient psychiatric treatment. SOTS composite severity scores for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD (cPTSD), and total PTSD/cPTSD severity had acceptable internal consistency reliability. SOTS scores' construct and convergent validity was supported by correlations with self-report measures of childhood and adult trauma history and PTSD, dissociation, and anger symptoms. For men, SOTS scores were associated with childhood sexual and emotional abuse and self-reported anger problems, whereas for women SOTS scores were most consistently and strongly associated with childhood family adversity and self-reported PTSD symptoms. Results provide preliminary support for the reliability and validity of the SOTS with adults with severe mental illness and suggest directions for replication, measure refinement, and research on gender differences. |
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