Associations among PTSD symptoms, fear of emotion, and couple communication difficulties: A between-person dyadic analysis.

Steffany J Fredman, Jeesun Lee, Yunying Le, Emily Taverna, Amy D Marshall

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Article in Behaviour research and therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Steffany J FredmanDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. Electronic address: sjf23@psu.edu.

Jeesun LeeDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; Center for Healthy Aging, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

Yunying LeDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.

Emily TavernaDepartment of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; Women's Health Sciences Division, National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.

Amy D MarshallDepartment of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

Funding

Penn State Institutional Career Development CoreKL2TR002015 · NCATS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV HERSHEY MED CTR · PI VAN SCOY, LAUREN JODI · 2016 to 2025

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NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR002015

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study investigated between-person associations among PTSD symptoms, fear of emotion, and perceived couple communication difficulties in a dyadic context among 64 trauma-exposed, mixed gender community couples (N = 128 individuals) using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model. Individuals with higher PTSD symptoms endorsed greater fear of their emotions (β

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CommunicationEmotionsFearInterpersonal RelationsStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSex FactorsSpousesYoung AdultCommunicationConflictCoupleFear of emotionGenderPTSD

Identifiers

PMID39673913

DOI10.1016/j.brat.2024.104666

PMCPMC13334580

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