Dart Center for Trauma and Journalism Research Unit in the Psychology Department, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, USA.
Stress Health. 2018 Apr;34(2):218-226. doi: 10.1002/smi.2775. Epub 2017 Aug 22.
The current study examined personal and environmental factors that placed 167 U.S. journalists from diverse media organizations at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after covering work-related traumatic stories. These factors included exposure to traumatic stressors in their personal lives, work-related traumatic stressors, and general organizational stressors. Further, personality attributes and coping styles associated with risk and resiliency were examined. Regression analyses identified avoidant emotional coping, higher levels of perceived organizational stressors, intensity of exposure to work-related traumatic stressors, and personal trauma history as statistically significant risk factors for PTSD. The results provide empirical support for the negative impact of organizational stressors and avoidant emotional coping on journalists covering trauma-related stories. Understanding the organizational climate journalists are working in, as well as the manner in which journalists manage work-related stressors, is important in the development of a more comprehensive model of who may develop work-related PTSD symptoms. Opportunities for news organizations to reduce PTSD risk among journalists are discussed.
本研究考察了个人和环境因素，这些因素使来自不同媒体机构的 167 名美国记者在报道与工作相关的创伤性故事后，有患上创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的风险。这些因素包括个人生活中的创伤性应激源暴露、与工作相关的创伤性应激源和一般组织应激源。此外，还研究了与风险和适应力相关的人格特质和应对方式。回归分析确定了回避性情绪应对、感知到的组织应激源水平较高、与工作相关的创伤性应激源暴露强度以及个人创伤史是 PTSD 的统计学显著风险因素。研究结果为组织应激源和回避性情绪应对对报道创伤相关故事的记者的负面影响提供了实证支持。了解记者所工作的组织氛围以及记者管理与工作相关的应激源的方式，对于制定更全面的谁可能会出现与工作相关的 PTSD 症状的模型非常重要。讨论了新闻机构为减少记者 PTSD 风险而提供的机会。
