A Preliminary Examination of Thought Suppression, Emotion Regulation, and Coping in a Trauma-Exposed Sample
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Attempts to modulate negative emotional and cognitive symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may be related to psychopathology. Trauma exposed undergraduates, 31 reporting severe PTSD symptoms (PTSD group) and 34 without PTSD symptoms (no-PTSD group), completed measures of PTSD, depression, anxiety, thought control, emotion regulation, and coping. The PTSD group had greater psychopathology and overall modulation strategy use than the no-PTSD group. Thought suppression, emotion suppression, and avoidant coping strategies were positively related to psychopathology, whereas emotion reappraisal and approach coping strategies were either not related or weakly negatively related. Hierarchical multiple regressions with psychopathologic variables as criteria and modulation strategies as predictors indicated significant models in all cases. Generally, thought suppression was the only significant independent predictor of psychopathology.
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Suppressing trauma is linked to poorer mental health outcomes.
“Suppressing trauma is linked to poorer mental health outcomes [59], leaving South Asian male survivors particularly vulnerable.”
Trauma exposure is an area in which strategies used to manage private events substantially predict long-term outcomes.
“Trauma exposure is one area in which strategies used to manage private events seems to substantially predict long-term outcomes [11,12,13,14,15].”
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- Authors
- Amstadter, A. B., & Vernon, L. L.
- Affiliations
- Medical University of South Carolina (US)
- Florida Atlantic University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Amstadter, Ananda B.
- Venue
- Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2008-10-17
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 279-295
- ISSN
- 1092-6771 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-083X
- PMC
- PMC2800361
- OpenAlex
- W2003845842
- Cited by
- 90
- References
- 38
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- FWCI
- 0.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Aggression Maltreatment & Trauma (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (F32MH083469)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- thought suppression, emotion regulation, coping strategies, post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma exposure, psychopathology, emotional suppression, emotion reappraisal, avoidance coping, approach coping, depression, anxiety, undergraduate students
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