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Resilience and psychological trauma among Filipino American women
Andrew Thomas Reyes1, Rose E Constantino2, Chad L Cross3
1School of Nursing, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Aims:
To explore the types of traumatic exposure, prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and level of resilience in a community sample of Filipino American women (FAW), as well as to investigate the relationships between their PTSD symptoms, history of traumatic exposure, and resilience.
Method:
A cross-sectional study with a total of 188 adult FAW.
Results:
We observed high levels of resilience and low levels of PTSD symptom severity. The most common form of traumatic exposure was non-interpersonal trauma occurring after the age of 18 years old. We also found a significant correlation between history of traumatic exposure and PTSD and between resilience and PTSD. Resilience was found to have a significant moderating effect on the relationship between traumatic exposure and PTSD.
Conclusions:
The results provide preliminary evidence on the buffering and protective properties of FAW's resilience to PTSD despite traumatic exposure.
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