ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Changes over Time in Mental Characteristics of a Negative Event Predict People’s PTSD-like Symptoms about That Event
- Mevagh Sanson
The University of Waikato - Melanie Takarangi
Flinders University - Rachel Zajac
University of Otago - Maryanne Garry
The University of Waikato
Abstract
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is understood to arise from past events: people’s symptoms relate to characteristics of their memory for a trauma. But we found people’s PTSD-like symptoms were predicted by changes in characteristics of how they imagined a hypothetical future trauma. PTSD may not be unique to past events.
Psychopathology
