The relationship of COVID‐19 traumatic stress, cumulative trauma, and race to posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

The purpose of this study was to test if coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) traumatic stress predicts posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after cumulative trauma and whether there is a three‐way interaction between COVID‐19 traumatic stress, cumulative trauma, and race in the prediction o...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of community psychology Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 2597 - 2610
Main Authors: Ashby, Jeffrey S., Rice, Kenneth G., Kira, Ibrahim A., Davari, Jaleh
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.08.2022
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects:
Asian cultural groups
COVID-19
COVID‐19 traumatic stress
cumulative trauma
Post traumatic stress disorder
Race
Racial groups
Special Issue
Symptoms
Trauma
race
cumulative trauma
COVID-19 traumatic stress
ISSN:0090-4392, 1520-6629, 1520-6629
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The purpose of this study was to test if coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) traumatic stress predicts posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after cumulative trauma and whether there is a three‐way interaction between COVID‐19 traumatic stress, cumulative trauma, and race in the prediction of PTSD. Using a cross‐sectional design, a diverse sample of 745 participants completed measures of cumulative trauma, COVID‐19 traumatic stress, and PTSD. COVID‐19 traumatic stress accounted for a significant amount of the variance in PTSD above and beyond cumulative trauma. A significant interaction effect was found, indicating that the effect of COVID‐19 traumatic stress in predicting PTSD varied as a function of cumulative trauma and that the effects of that interaction were different for Asians and Whites. There were generally comparable associations between COVID‐19 traumatic stress and PTSD at low and high levels of cumulative trauma across most racial groups. However, for Asians, higher levels of cumulative trauma did not worsen the PTSD outcome as a function of COVID Traumatic Stress but did at low levels of cumulative trauma.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
content type line 23
ISSN:0090-4392
1520-6629
1520-6629
DOI:10.1002/jcop.22762