Trial reportInternational journal of molecular sciences2020
Free Your Mind: Emotional Expressive Flexibility Moderates the Effect of Stress on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms.
Trial report in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Psychological Variables Associated With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Firefighters: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- Bouncing back from stress: objective markers of expressive flexibility and resilience in emergency healthcare workers using computer vision.NPP - digital psychiatry and neuroscience · 2026Article
- The vulnerable role of empathy in children who live in conflict zones.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Emotional regulatory flexibility mitigates effects of school-related stress.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Latent profiles of regulatory flexibility in alcohol use disorder: Associations with delay discounting and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Everyday life experiences for evaluating post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Cultural differences in the relations between expressive flexibility and life satisfaction over time.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Adaptive responding to prolonged stress exposure: A binational study on the impact of flexibility on latent profiles of cognitive, emotional and behavioural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
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Abstract
Servicemen are exposed to high levels of stress as part of their daily routine, however, studies which tested the relationship between stress and clinical symptoms reached inconsistent results. The present study examines the role of expressive flexibility, which was determined according to the ability to enhance or suppress either negative or positive emotional expression in conflictual situations, as a possible moderator between stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms. A total of 82 active-duty firefighters (all men, age range = 25-66, M = 33.59, SD = 9.56, range of years in duty service = 2-41, M = 14.37, SD = 11.79), with different duty-related repeated traumatic exposure, participated in the study. We predicted and found that firefighters with low, but not high, expressive flexibility showed a significant positive correlation between duty-related traumatic exposure and PTSD symptomology (
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