Childhood Stress Disorder Behaviors in Veterans Who Do and Do Not Develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 177 (2), 92-95
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-198902000-00004
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to test a variation of the stress-evaporation theory, which maintains that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are simply exacerbations of behaviors present before the trauma. Retrospective childhood self-ratings were made by 63 PTSD patients, 53 psychiatric controls, and 28 normals on 13 PTSD-like symptoms. The results did not support the hypothesis, and they give more support to the residual-stress model than to the stress-evaporation theory.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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