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Annett Lotzin1, Olha Morozova-Larina2, Antje Paetow3
1Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Background:
Individuals with higher resilient coping may manage war-related trauma better than individuals with lower resilient coping. If so, resilient coping may weaken the relationship between war trauma and posttraumatic stress disorders.
Objective:
This study aimed to investigate the role of resilient coping in moderating the associations between cumulative war trauma exposure and ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorders during war.
Methods:
This cross-sectional study included N = 851 Ukrainian students living in the Ukraine between December 2022 and January 2023 during the Russian-Ukrainian war. We tested a model in which resilient coping was specified as a moderator of the effect of war-related cumulative trauma exposure (Harvard Trauma Questionnaire-R) on ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and disturbances in self-organization (DSO) symptom levels (International Trauma Questionnaire-R), respectively. We used Structural Equation Modeling and controlled our analysis for previous trauma exposure, gender, years of study, and level of income.
Results:
In contrast to our hypothesis, the level of resilient coping did not moderate the effect of cumulative war trauma exposure on PTSD and DSO symptom levels. Instead, we found a strong direct effect of the level of resilient coping on PTSD and DSO symptom levels.
Conclusions:
Resilient coping may directly affect the level of PTSD and DSO symptoms but may not weaken the association between trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorders during war.
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