Southwick S M, Morgan C A, Rosenberg R
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06519, USA.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 2000 Oct;188(10):695-700. doi: 10.1097/00005053-200010000-00008.
It commonly is believed that talking with family and friends (social sharing) about stressful or traumatic experiences can be therapeutic with regard to stress-related psychological symptoms. Two years after serving in the Gulf War, 58 National Guard Reservists completed the Mississippi Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Scale (PTSD), the Brief Symptom Inventory, and a measure of social sharing that asked how much they had talked to family and friends about their experiences in the Gulf during the 2-year period since returning from the war. Subjects had a broad range of Mississippi PTSD scores. Six subjects met Mississippi criteria for PTSD. Degree of talking to family and friends about Gulf War experiences did not account for a significant portion of the variance in the prediction of PTSD symptoms but did significantly contribute to prediction of scores for interpersonal sensitivity, depression, and psychoticism. Thus, degree of talking with family and friends was not found to be related to PTSD symptoms, although it may have influenced some symptoms of general psychopathology, such as depression, that are not specific to PTSD.
人们普遍认为，与家人和朋友谈论（社交分享）压力大或创伤性的经历，对于与压力相关的心理症状可能具有治疗作用。在海湾战争服役两年后，58名国民警卫队预备役军人完成了密西西比创伤后应激障碍量表（PTSD）、简明症状量表，以及一项社交分享测量，该测量询问他们在从战争归来后的两年里，与家人和朋友谈论海湾经历的程度。受试者的密西西比PTSD分数范围很广。6名受试者符合密西西比PTSD标准。与家人和朋友谈论海湾战争经历的程度，在PTSD症状预测的方差中所占比例并不显著，但对人际敏感性、抑郁和精神质分数的预测有显著贡献。因此，尽管与家人和朋友交谈的程度可能影响了一些一般精神病理学症状，如抑郁，但未发现其与PTSD症状有关，这些症状并非PTSD所特有。
