消防员中PTSD症状严重程度和酒精使用:情绪调节困难的作用
Samuel J Leonard1, Shelby J McGrew1,2, Antoine Lebeaut1
1University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
Journal of dual diagnosis
|October 6, 2023
概括
患有创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 症状的消防员可能会使用酒精来应对由于情绪调节困难 (ERD). ERD部分解释了PTSD症状与使用酒精应对之间的联系.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 创伤研究 创伤研究
背景情况:
- 消防员经历高率的创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 症状和酒精使用.
- 情绪调节困难 (ERD) 与PTSD和酒精使用有关.
- 在消防员中,ERD在将PTSD症状与酒精使用模式联系起来的作用尚未得到充分研究.
研究的目的:
- 调查PTSD症状严重程度对酒精使用严重程度和消防员动机的间接影响.
- 检查ERD在PTSD症状与酒精使用之间的关系中扮演的调解角色.
主要方法:
- 一个由685名消防员组成的样本完成了在线调查.
- 间接影响使用引导 (10,000个样本) 进行分析.
- 对服务年数,职业压力和创伤负载进行控制的分析.
主要成果:
- 情绪调节困难 (ERD) 显著调解了PTSD症状严重程度和酒精使用应对动机之间的关联.
- ERD没有显著调解PTSD症状严重程度和整体酒精使用严重程度之间的关系.
- 埃尔德并没有显著调解PTSD症状严重程度与为增强,社会或合规动机而使用酒精之间的关联.
结论:
- 创伤后应激障碍症状严重程度与使用酒精应对积极相关,ERD在消防员中扮演中介角色.
- 调查结果强调了在干预中解决ERD对于患有PTSD症状和问题性酒精使用的消防员的重要性.
- 进一步的研究应该探索针对情绪调节的有针对性的干预措施,以减轻该人口中不健康的酒精使用.
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