Peritraumatic fear, helplessness and horror and peritraumatic dissociation: do physical and cognitive symptoms of panic mediate the relationship between the two?

Modeling Structural Relationships between Trauma experience and Peritraumatic dissociation in People with Earthquake Trauma Experience: The Mediating Role of experiential avoidance

Introduction: Earthquake trauma has a wide range of psychological consequences in the affected areas. In addition, the role of Peritraumatic dissociation - as one of the consequences of trauma and the shaping factor of psychological problems - is still unknown. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to Modeling Structural Relationships between Trauma experience and Peritraumatic dissociati...

Beyond Fear, Helplessness, and Horror: Peritraumatic Reactions Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among Traumatized Delinquent Youth

Fright (effroi) and other peritraumatic responses after a serious motor vehicle accident: prospective influence on acute PTSD development.

OBJECTIVE We prospectively examined the relation between various peritraumatic responses (that is, fear, helplessness, horror, amnesia, and fright) and the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 2 months after a trauma. METHOD Participants included 123 motor vehicle accident (MVA) victims consecutively hospitalized in a traumatology department for over 72 hours during a 16-month ...

Peritraumatic reactions in relation to trauma exposure and symptoms of posttraumatic stress in high school students

Background: Exposure to traumatic events is clearly associated with a diversity of subsequent mental health problems, with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as the most prevalent disorder. Epidemiologically, trauma exposure rates are more prevalent than PTSD, indicating that most trauma victims do not develop PTSD. More knowledge is needed to understand the development of the different postt...

Disgust and the development of posttraumatic stress among soldiers deployed to Afghanistan.

Although the DSM-IV recognizes that events can traumatize by evoking horror, not just fear, the role of disgust in the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has received little research attention. In a study of soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, we examined whether reports of peritraumatic disgust and trait disgust vulnerability factors (disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity) ...