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标题：General self-efficacy and posttraumatic stress after a natural disaster: a longitudinal study
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作者：Egil Nygaard ; Ajmal Hussain ; Johan Siqveland 等
期刊名称：BMC Psychology
印刷版ISSN：2050-7283
出版年度：2016
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：15
DOI：10.1186/s40359-016-0119-2
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Self-efficacy may be an important factor in individuals’ recovery from posttraumatic stress reactions after a natural disaster. However, few longitudinal studies have investigated whether self-efficacy predicts the course of posttraumatic recovery beyond lower initial levels of distress. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether general self-efficacy is related to recovery from posttraumatic stress reactions from a longitudinal perspective. A total of 617 Norwegians exposed to the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami completed self-report questionnaires measuring their level of disaster exposure and general self-efficacy at 6 months and posttraumatic stress reactions 6 months and 2 years post-disaster. Predictors of changes in posttraumatic stress reactions were analyzed with multivariate mixed effects models. Self-efficacy at 6 months post-disaster was unrelated to trauma exposure and inversely related to posttraumatic stress reactions at 6 months and 2 years post-disaster. However, self-efficacy was not related to recovery from posttraumatic stress reactions between 6 months and 2 years post-disaster. In conclusion, general self-efficacy is related to lower levels of posttraumatic stress reactions in the first months after a disaster but does not appear to be related to improved recovery rates over the longer term.
关键词：Disaster ; Posttraumatic stress reactions ; PTSD ; Self-efficacy