El Salvador earthquakes: Relationships among acute stress disorder symptoms, depression, traumatic event exposure, and resource loss

Four and seven weeks after powerful earthquakes in El Salvador, the authors examined the relationships among demographics, traumatic event exposure, social support, resource loss, acute stress disorder (ASD) symptoms, depression, and posttraumatic growth. Participants were 253 college students (Stud...

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Published in:Journal of traumatic stress 2006-12, Vol.19 (6), p.879-893
Main Authors: Sattler, David N., de Alvarado, Ana Maria Glower, de Castro, Norma Blandon, Male, Robert Van, Zetino, A. M., Vega, Raphael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anxiety disorders. Neuroses
Biological and medical sciences
Depression
Depression - epidemiology
Depression - psychology
Disasters
El Salvador - epidemiology
Female
Housing
Humans
Life Change Events
Male
Medical sciences
Mood disorders
Multivariate Analysis
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Regression Analysis
Risk Factors
Social Support
Socioeconomic Factors
Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute - epidemiology
Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute - psychology
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Summary:Four and seven weeks after powerful earthquakes in El Salvador, the authors examined the relationships among demographics, traumatic event exposure, social support, resource loss, acute stress disorder (ASD) symptoms, depression, and posttraumatic growth. Participants were 253 college students (Study 1) and 83 people in the community (Study 2). In Study 1, female gender, traumatic event exposure, low social support, and loss of personal characteristic, condition, and energy resources contributed to ASD symptoms and depression. In Study 2, damage to home and loss of personal characteristic and object resources contributed to ASD symptoms and depression. Posttraumatic growth was not associated with ASD symptoms or depression. Findings support the conservation of resources stress theory (Hobfoll, 1998). Resource loss spirals, excessive demands on coping, and exposure to multiple disasters are discussed.
ISSN:0894-9867
1573-6598
DOI:10.1002/jts.20174