Danger/Injury Exposure Scale

Berntsen, Dorthe; Johannessen, Kim Berg; Thomsen, Yvonne D.; Bertelsen, Mette; Hoyle, Rick H.; Rubin, David C.

doi:10.1037/t68841-000

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“…Among Danish soldiers deployed to Iraq (Bo Andersen, Karstoft, Bertelsen, & Madsen, 2014), an improvement trajectory ("low-fluctuating") was also identified in 7.5% of the soldiers, though the authors did not discuss the pattern in the article. Another study using earlier waves of these data also identified a group of soldiers who experienced distinct patterns of "temporary benefit" from their combat experiences (Berntsen et al, 2012). Still another example is found in Bonanno and colleagues' (2012) examination of trajectories of adjustment among U.S. soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.…”

Section: Prior Evidence Of Improved Functioning After Acute Stressmentioning

confidence: 91%

Can People Benefit From Acute Stress? Social Support, Psychological Improvement, and Resilience After the Virginia Tech Campus Shootings

Mancini

Littleton

Grills

2015

Clinical Psychological Science

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Could the acute stress of a traumatic event actually promote psychological health? Previous research has focused almost exclusively on the potential of traumatic experiences to initiate a process of posttraumatic growth (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004). However, the possibility that people can experience psychological improvement-a reduction in preexisting distress-as a direct consequence of a traumatic event has been ignored, perhaps understandably. Indeed, on its face, the prospect seems absurd. Yet a growing literature has documented that stressful experiences, as well as painful ones, promote various beneficial social outcomes. For example, inducing stress in a laboratory increases trust, trustworthiness, and sharing behavior (von Dawans, Fischbacher, Kirschbaum, Fehr, & Heinrichs, 2012) and also improves social cognition (Smeets, Dziobek, & Wolf, 2009). Furthermore, painful experiences, when shared with others, can serve as "social glue," prompting a greater sense of solidarity and bonding (Bastian, Jetten, & Ferris, 2014). These controlled laboratory experiments dovetail with a considerable literature on the aftermath of mass traumas. After such events, there is a collective and immediate outpouring of support, both emotional and material, to help survivors cope with the disaster (Norris et al., 2002; Solnit, 2009). These effects, well documented in the historical and sociological literatures, have been variously described as a "post-disaster utopia" (Wolfenstein, 1957), "a paradise built in hell" (Solnit, 2009), and a "city of comrades" (Prince, 1920). Consistent with laboratory research, postdisaster communities have been characterized by a high degree of internal solidarity, an increase in

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Section: Prior Evidence Of Improved Functioning After Acute Stressmentioning

confidence: 91%