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  • Education
  • Trauma Studies

Background:

  • Trigger warnings are increasingly used in educational settings to alert students to potentially distressing content.
  • Research on the effectiveness of trigger warnings in mitigating negative emotional responses is ongoing and yields mixed results.
  • Understanding student responses to sensitive literary content is crucial for creating inclusive learning environments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the impact of different types of trigger warnings on undergraduate students' emotional and psychological responses to a passage depicting physical and sexual assault.
  • To determine if pre-existing trauma history or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms influence distress levels after exposure to triggering content.
  • To assess the relationship between trigger warning anticipation (neutral, positive, negative) and student distress.

Main Methods:

  • 123 undergraduates were randomly assigned to read a passage containing depictions of assault under varying trigger warning conditions (neutral, positive, negative).
  • Participants' distress and PTSD symptoms were measured on three separate occasions: Day 1, Day 2, and Day 14.
  • Statistical analyses were conducted to compare distress levels across different trigger warning groups and to examine the influence of trauma history.

Main Results:

  • No significant differences in distress were found based on the type of trigger warning used.
  • Students' pre-existing trauma history did not correlate with increased distress after reading the passage.
  • Initial PTSD symptom severity did not predict greater distress over the study period.

Conclusions:

  • The findings suggest that instructors can use challenging literary passages without undue concern for disproportionately affecting students with related trauma histories.
  • The type of trigger warning employed does not appear to significantly influence students' emotional reactions to sensitive material.
  • Educational institutions may not need to focus on the specific nature of warnings, as their impact on distress is minimal.