Earthquakes, attributions, and psychopathology: a study in a rural community

Autor: Helene Joffe, Chris R. Brewin, Alessandro Massazza
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
psicopatología
blame
lcsh:RC435-571
media_common.quotation_subject
归因
Poison control
sobrevivientes de desastre
behavioral disciplines and activities
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
cause
Blame
lcsh:Psychiatry
mental disorders
Injury prevention
精神病症
责任
atribuciones
culpa
media_common
attributions
• Attributions towards God and chance by earthquake survivors were positively associated with PTSD symptoms and psychological distress.• Survivors distinguished between cause and blame attributions.• Supporting evidence is provided for DSM-5 D3 criterion for PTSD
Basic Research Article
原因
灾难幸存者
Human factors and ergonomics
psychopathology
humanities
causa
posttraumatic stress disorder
创伤后应激障碍
disaster survivors
Trastorno por estrés postraumático
Psychology
Attribution
Psychopathology
Clinical psychology
Zdroj: European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2019)
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
ISSN: 2000-8066
Popis: Background: Attributions of both cause and blame form part of the diagnostic criteria for PTSD in DSM-5. Most work on attributions and psychopathology has focused on survivors of interpersonal violence and the two types of attribution have not been investigated together in natural disaster contexts. Previous work has identified that attributions to God’s role may be associated with survivors’ mental health following disasters. We studied the relation between attributions to God and other actors/entities in a rural community with high levels of religiosity that had suffered extensive damage and loss of life due to a series of earthquakes. Methods: A sample of survivors (N = 127) was assessed for degree of earthquake exposure, resource loss, attributions of cause and blame for the earthquake damage, and psychopathology three months after a series of major earthquakes in Italy. Results: Nature and chance were associated with higher cause than blame attributions whereas the State, the municipality, building firms, and the mafia were associated with higher blame than cause attributions. Additionally, both cause and blame attributions towards God and chance were positively correlated with PTSD and psychological distress symptoms. These associations remained significant while controlling for degree of earthquake exposure, resource loss, gender, age, and education. Conclusion: The current study supports the role played by cognitions about the cause of traumatic events, as introduced into the PTSD diagnosis in DSM-5, and extends this to blame of other entities such as God and chance following disasters.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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