ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2014
Bidirectional relationships between trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress: a longitudinal study of Detroit residents.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Revictimisation Across Types of Interpersonal Violence: A Meta-Regression Analysis of PTSD and Associated Factors.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Pooled it
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- Prevalence and determinants of probable post-traumatic stress disorder among university students eight months after the 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquake doublet.Dusunen adam : Bakirkoy Ruh ve Sinir Hastaliklari Hastanesi yayin organi · 2024Article
- Examining recurrent hurricane exposure and psychiatric morbidity in Medicaid-insured pregnant populations.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
- Everyday life experiences for evaluating post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- A Scoping Review and Proposed Framework for Coping in Youth With a History of Psychological Trauma and Chronic Pain.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2022Article
- Cumulative Disaster Exposure and Mental and Physical Health Symptoms Among a Large Sample of Gulf Coast Residents.Journal of traumatic stress · 2019Article
- Cumulative effects of the Gulf oil spill and other disasters on mental health among reproductive-aged women: The Gulf Resilience on Women's Health study.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2018Article
- Stress-Generative Effects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Transactional Associations Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Stressful Life Events in a Longitudinal Sample.Journal of traumatic stress · 2018Article
- Pathways from assaultive violence to post-traumatic stress, depression, and generalized anxiety symptoms through stressful life events: longitudinal mediation models.Psychological medicine · 2017Article
- Association of DSM-IV Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Traumatic Experience Type and History in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.JAMA psychiatry · 2017Article
- Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2017Article
- Post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiometabolic disease: improving causal inference to inform practice.Psychological medicine · 2017Review
- Negative emotionality and disconstraint influence PTSD symptom course via exposure to new major adverse life events.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2015Article
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Abstract
Previous research has documented bidirectional relationships between trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress (PTS), such that individuals who are exposed to more traumatic events are at increased risk of developing PTS, and more severe PTS is associated with more subsequent trauma exposure. However, the empirical literature is limited by a lack of longitudinal studies that include continuous measures of PTS, differentiate between assaultive (e.g., sexual assault, being held up or mugged) and nonassaultive (e.g., serious illness, natural disaster) trauma, and focus on urban contexts. The purpose of this study was to fill these gaps through testing 3-wave cross-lagged panel models of exposure to assaultive and nonassaultive traumatic events and PTS among a large sample of urban-dwelling adults (N = 1,360; 84.4% non-Hispanic Black). In the model including assaultive trauma, more Wave 2 assaultive events were associated with significantly higher Wave 3 PTS. In contrast, in the model including nonassaultive trauma, higher Wave 1 and Wave 2 PTS were associated with more nonassaultive events at Waves 2 and 3, respectively. Taken together, the findings suggest a cycle of adversity wherein urban residents who have experienced assaultive trauma are at risk of more severe PTS, which in turn increases risk for exposure to nonassaultive trauma. This cycle could be tested directly in future studies through models including both types of events. Additional research on the mechanisms that underlie the pathways between PTS and traumatic events could also have implications for policy and practice.
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