Department of Psychology.
Psychol Trauma. 2020 May;12(4):364-372. doi: 10.1037/tra0000481. Epub 2019 Jun 27.
The co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol misuse presents a significant clinical concern among military veterans. Fear of self-compassion, the active resistance to thinking and behaving compassionately toward oneself, may be an important consideration that underlies this relation.
The current investigation examined whether self-compassion and fear of self-compassion, separately, mediated the association between PTSD symptoms and alcohol misuse among a sample of military veterans.
Data were collected from 203 military veterans ( age = 35.08 years, 77.70% male, 72.2% White) who responded to an online survey.
The findings indicated that both self-compassion and fear of self-compassion significantly explained the association between PTSD symptoms and alcohol misuse. Furthermore, fear of self-compassion explained this relation after adjusting for levels of self-compassion.
These results suggest that both self-compassion and a fear of self-compassion may be important considerations in the PTSD-alcohol misuse relation; future work should extend these findings in longitudinal and intervention frameworks. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)和酒精滥用的同时发生是退伍军人中一个重要的临床关注点。对自我同情的恐惧,即积极抵制对自己表现出同情和理解的想法和行为,可能是这种关系背后的一个重要考虑因素。
本研究分别考察了自我同情和对自我同情的恐惧是否在 PTSD 症状和酒精滥用之间的关系中起中介作用。
从 203 名退伍军人(年龄=35.08 岁,77.70%为男性,72.2%为白人)中收集数据,他们对在线调查做出了回应。
研究结果表明,自我同情和对自我同情的恐惧都显著解释了 PTSD 症状和酒精滥用之间的关联。此外,在调整自我同情水平后,对自我同情的恐惧解释了这种关系。
这些结果表明,自我同情和对自我同情的恐惧可能是 PTSD-酒精滥用关系中的重要考虑因素;未来的工作应该在纵向和干预框架中扩展这些发现。(PsycInfo 数据库记录(c)2020 APA,保留所有权利)。