The Role of Individual Factors in Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

摘要: This chapter will review the factors that contribute to risk of PTSD in individuals who have faced a severely threatening experience such as an assault, accident, or participation war. It epidemiological evidence, which shows although most adults even peacetime democracies encountered challenging experiences, do not develop PTSD. The gap rates between exposure events and incidence event-focused mental disorder is accounted for by individual differences long-standing traits, beliefs, aspects personal history. examine role important traits include ability regulate emotions, well presence certain longstanding dysfunctional thoughts beliefs. Additional arising from prior behavior, be reviewed.