Integration and organization of trauma memories and posttraumatic symptoms

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dc.contributor.authorO'Kearney, Richard
dc.contributor.authorHunt, Aliza
dc.contributor.authorWallace, Nancy
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:23:25Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T09:16:37Z
dc.description.abstractTo examine the connection between trauma memory integration in personal memory, memory organization, and posttraumatic symptom severity, 47 trauma-exposed adults undertook an event-cuing task for their trauma memory and for a memorable nontraumatic negative event. Measures of integration provided by self-endorsement, rated by naïve judges, or calculated from the language of the memories, did not significantly predict posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity after adjusting for age, time since the event, anxiety when disclosing, familiarity of the memory, and integration of nontrauma memory. Less use of casual connectives in the trauma memory narrative was associated with higher trauma-related avoidance (r = .33; p = .03), whereas self-rating of the trauma memory as disorganized was associated with higher overall symptom severity (r = .42; p = .006).
dc.identifier.issn0894-9867
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/20683
dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishers
dc.sourceJournal of Traumatic Stress
dc.titleIntegration and organization of trauma memories and posttraumatic symptoms
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue6
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage725
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage716
local.contributor.affiliationO'Kearney, Richard, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationHunt, Aliza, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationWallace, Nancy, Connecticut College
local.contributor.authoremailu4050249@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidO'Kearney, Richard, u4050249
local.contributor.authoruidHunt, Aliza, u4562447
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor170199 - Psychology not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.absseo970117 - Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5139959xPUB13
local.identifier.citationvolume24
local.identifier.doi10.1002/jts.20690
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84155167715
local.identifier.thomsonID000298581800012
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5139959
local.type.statusPublished Version

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