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Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Stalking Victims

Nelson, Megan E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1533558167223466

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2018, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, Psychology, Clinical.
The current study aimed to understand mediators and moderators of the relationship between stalking victimization and PTSD symptomology. Using the reformulated learned helplessness theory as a model (Abramson, Seligman, & Teasdale, 1978; Reiland, Lauterbach, Harrington, & Palmieri, 2014), I predicted that participants who experienced stalking would be likely to attribute the cause of their specific stalking experience to internal, global, and stable attributions beyond their attributional styles. I also predicted that these attributions, as well as characterological self-blame, would be more likely to lead to PTSD symptomology in women, or people with feminine sex-role identities who had longer stalking experiences. While this study did not find a significant relationship between stalking victimization and PTSD, implications for the observed association between both sex-role identity and the length of the stalking episode and stalking victimization are discussed.
Catherine Zois, PhD (Advisor)
80 p.
Clinical Psychology
Stalking, victimization, helplessness, attributional style, stalking-specific attributions, characterological self-blame, length of stalking episode, stalking frequency, and stalking distress

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  • Nelson, M. E. (2018). Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Stalking Victims [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1533558167223466

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nelson, Megan. Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Stalking Victims. 2018. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1533558167223466.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nelson, Megan. "Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Stalking Victims." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1533558167223466

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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