POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER AND COPING AFTER A NATURAL DISASTER

Authors
SPURRELL MT MCFARLANE AC
Citation
Mt. Spurrell et Ac. Mcfarlane, POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER AND COPING AFTER A NATURAL DISASTER, Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 28(4), 1993, pp. 194-200
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
09337954
Volume
28
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
194 - 200
Database
ISI
SICI code
0933-7954(1993)28:4<194:PACAAN>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
This study examines the role of coping in the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a non-patient population following exposure to a natural disaster. In contrast to other studies, the use of all co ping strategies was found to be associated with the presence of PTSD r ather than the absence of symptoms. These data suggest that coping (in this sense) represents a psychological process used to contain the di stress caused by symptoms as well as to manage environmental adversity .