Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Burnett Hall 238, Lincoln, NE 68588-0308, United States.
Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Burnett Hall 238, Lincoln, NE 68588-0308, United States.
J Anxiety Disord. 2022 Mar;86:102536. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102536. Epub 2022 Jan 31.
Despite the clearly established link between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and emotion dysregulation, little is known about how individual symptoms of PTSD and aspects of emotion dysregulation interrelate. The network approach to mental health disorders provides a novel framework for conceptualizing the association between PTSD and emotion dysregulation as a system of interacting nodes. In this study, we estimated the structural relations among PTSD symptoms and aspects of emotion dysregulation within a large sample of women who participated in a multi-site study of sexual revictimization (N = 463). We estimated expected influence to reveal differential associations among PTSD symptoms and aspects of emotion dysregulation. Further, we estimated bridge expected influence to identify influential nodes connecting PTSD symptoms and aspects of emotion dysregulation. Results highlighted the key role of concentration difficulties in expected influence and bridge expected influence. Findings highlight several PTSD symptoms and aspects of emotion dysregulation that may be targets for future intervention.
尽管创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)与情绪失调之间存在明确的联系,但对于 PTSD 的个体症状和情绪失调的各个方面如何相互关联,我们知之甚少。心理健康障碍的网络方法为理解 PTSD 和情绪失调之间的关联提供了一个新颖的框架,将其视为一个相互作用的节点系统。在这项研究中,我们在一个参加性再受虐多地点研究的大型女性样本中(N=463),估计了 PTSD 症状和情绪失调各方面之间的结构关系。我们估计了预期影响,以揭示 PTSD 症状和情绪失调各方面之间的差异关联。此外,我们还估计了桥梁预期影响,以确定连接 PTSD 症状和情绪失调各方面的影响节点。结果突出了注意力困难在预期影响和桥梁预期影响中的关键作用。研究结果强调了几个可能成为未来干预目标的 PTSD 症状和情绪失调方面。