MIDAS Project Publication Abstracts
Franklin, C. L., Posternak, M. A., & Zimmerman, M. The impact
of subjective and expressed anger on the functioning of psychiatric
outpatients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Interpersonal
Violence, 2002, 17, 1263-1273.
Research has shown that anger may be related to the development
and maintenance of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The purpose
of the present study was to investigate the impact of anger on patients
with PTSD in a general psychiatric population. Participants diagnosed
with PTSD were grouped according to current levels of subjective
and inappropriately expressed anger: (1) low subjective and expressed
anger; (2) elevated subjective anger and low expressed anger; (3)
low subjective anger and elevated expressed anger; and (4) elevated
subjective and expressed anger. It was hypothesized that participants
reporting elevated levels of subjective anger coupled with recent
overt expression would be more impaired and distressed than individuals
with PTSD in the other anger groups, after comorbid diagnoses were
controlled. The elevated subjective and expressed anger group was
more impaired/distressed on global measures and their elevated anger
impacted some measures of behavioral functioning. Implications of
these findings are discussed in light of the literature on anger
and PTSD.
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