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Resource Loss and Naturalistic Reduction of PTSD Among Inner-City Women

Kristen H. Walter, MA* and Stevan E. Hobfoll

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kwalter2{at}kent.edu.


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Halting the process of psychosocial and material resource loss has been theorized as being associated with the reduction of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). We examined how the limiting of resource loss was related to alleviation of PTSD symptoms among 102 inner-city women who originally met diagnostic criteria for PTSD after experiencing interpersonal traumatic events such as child abuse, rape and sexual assault. Participants whose PTSD symptoms improved and became non-diagnositic for PTSD were compared to those who remained diagnositic. The two groups were not significantly different at pretest. However, at the 6-month time point, those who became non-diagnositic for PTSD reported less resources loss in 3 of 4 domains. This pattern suggests that as PTSD symptoms decrease, women?s material and psychosocial resource loss dimishes, which in turn, may aid their recovery process.

First published on May 5, 2008, doi:10.1177/0886260508317174

Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2009;24:482.

A more recent version of this article appeared on March 1, 2009

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