ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment2015
Aggressive behavior among military veterans in substance use disorder treatment: the roles of posttraumatic stress and impulsivity.
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- Associations between PTSD and intimate partner and non-partner aggression among substance using veterans in specialty mental health.Addictive behaviors · 2017Trial
- Differentiating U.S. military women veterans with suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and no suicidal ideation or attempts.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Article
- Efficacy of an integrated treatment for fathers with Co-occurring substance misuse and family violence.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2025Article
- Thought content, thought function, acceptance and adaptation over time: Experiences of Turkish veterans and their spouses whose cognitive functions are affected by PTSD.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Psychopathy traits explain variance shared between features of substance use disorders and violence.Criminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH · 2024Article
- Predictors of evidence-based psychotherapy initiation among veterans with co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Cannabis Use Among U.S. Military Veterans Following Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment.Military medicine · 2023Article
- Mediating effect of symptom severity on the relationship between aggression, impulsivity and quality of life outcomes among patients with schizophrenia and related psychoses.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Association of Traumatic Brain Injury With Mortality Among Military Veterans Serving After September 11, 2001.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Association of Serotonergic Pathway Gene Polymorphisms With Behavioral Parameters in Patients With Opioid Dependence.Cureus · 2021Article
- Positive emotional intensity and substance use: the underlying role of positive emotional avoidance in a community sample of military veterans.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2021Article
- Impulsivity as a multifactorial construct and its relationship to PTSD severity and threat sensitivity.Psychiatry research · 2020Article
- Clinical presentations, social functioning, and treatment receipt among individuals with comorbid life-time PTSD and alcohol use disorders versus drug use disorders: findings from NESARC-III.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2019Article
- Association of posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury with aggressive driving in Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans.Rehabilitation psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
This study examined posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity and impulsivity as predictors of aggressive behavior among 133 male military veterans entering substance abuse treatment who endorsed difficulty controlling anger in the past year. At treatment intake, participants completed measures assessing PTSD symptom severity, impulsivity and aggressive behavior. Perpetration of aggressive behavior was reassessed 4 months later. Results from multivariate models indicated that PTSD symptom severity and impulsivity explained unique variance in aggressive behavior at intake but not follow-up. Mediation models indicated that the association between PTSD symptom severity and aggressive behavior was accounted for by impulsivity. The identification of impulsivity as a key mediator between trauma symptoms and aggressive behavior has significant clinical and research implications. Based on these findings, clinicians are encouraged to consider a standard assessment of impulsivity and the selection of interventions that target impulsivity as a trans-diagnostic process among at-risk client populations.
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