Kamphuis J H, Emmelkamp P M
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Am J Psychiatry. 2001 May;158(5):795-8. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.158.5.795.
The authors examined the nature and prevalence of stalking behaviors, victims' coping responses, and the psychomedical impact of stalking on its victims.
Widely accepted self-report measures, including the 12-item General Health Questionnaire and the Impact of Event Scale, were used to assess characteristics of the stalking history and its outcome in terms of general psychomedical distress and posttraumatic stress in a community study group of 201 female stalking victims.
The majority of the victims had undergone multiple forms of harassment, including threats of violence in 74% (N=148) and actual violence in 55% (N=111). More than half of the victims met the criterion for clinically significant pathology on the General Health QUESTIONNAIRE: Stalking often yielded substantial posttraumatic stress symptoms, commensurate with levels found in other studies of traumatized subjects.
Support-seeking female stalking victims experience pervasive and persistent threat and intrusion; these experiences lead to high levels of psychological morbidity.
作者研究了跟踪行为的性质和发生率、受害者的应对反应以及跟踪行为对受害者的心理医学影响。
在一个由201名女性跟踪行为受害者组成的社区研究组中，使用广泛接受的自我报告测量方法，包括12项一般健康问卷和事件影响量表，从一般心理医学困扰和创伤后应激方面评估跟踪行为历史的特征及其结果。
大多数受害者遭受了多种形式的骚扰，其中74%（N = 148）受到暴力威胁，55%（N = 111）遭受实际暴力。超过一半的受害者在一般健康问卷上符合临床上显著病理的标准：跟踪行为常常产生大量创伤后应激症状，与其他受创伤受试者研究中发现的水平相当。
寻求帮助的女性跟踪行为受害者经历了普遍且持续的威胁和侵扰；这些经历导致了高水平的心理疾病。
