APS

2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022

Understanding Covid-19 As a Potentially Morally Injurious Event.

Chicago, IL · May 2022

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Julia Superka
    The New School for Social Research
  • McKenna Parnes
    Suffolk University
  • Kendall Pfeffer
    New School
  • Jordana Douglas
    New School for Social Research
  • Lauren Krulis
    New School for Social Research
  • Adam Brown
    The New School for Social Research

Abstract

The current study observes the appraisal of traumatic events as violating morally held beliefs in the general population.  One hundred seventy participants in the US completed a survey assessing moral injury. There was a direct effect of worrying about others contracting Covid-19 and social distancing on moral injury and rumination.

Psychopathology

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