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  • Mental Health Research

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  • Individuals may engage in self-triggering, exposing themselves to painful trauma reminders outside therapy.
  • Six potential motives include arousal, antinumbing, self-punishment, symptom control, meaning-making, and affect-matching.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine broader functions of self-triggering behavior.
  • To determine how these functions relate to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms.

Main Methods:

  • Exploratory factor analysis of self-reported reasons for self-triggering in 360 adults.
  • Confirmatory factor analysis to test higher-order factor structure and moderation of PTSD symptoms.

Main Results:

  • Five factors identified, with two higher-order functions: 'emotional modification' and 'meaning-making'.
  • 'Meaning-making' function significantly reduced the relationship between self-triggering frequency and PTSD symptom severity.
  • 'Emotional modification' did not moderate this relationship.

Conclusions:

  • The function of self-triggering, particularly meaning-making, influences its pathogenic potential.
  • Identifying the specific function of self-triggering is crucial for clinical assessment and intervention.
  • Sample limitations include high symptom levels and limited diversity, affecting generalizability.