ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Impact of Social Support on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder As Mediated By Disclosure
- Reem Hmaidan
University of Nevada, Reno - Brianna Preiser
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - Anthony Papa
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Abstract
This study examined the effect of functional and structural social support on PTSD severity as mediated by disclosure of traumatic experience over time in those exposed to a criterion A stressor. All social indices had direct effects on PTSD severity, but only negative perceived social support was mediated by disclosure.
Psychopathology
