Posttraumatic stress disorder in victimization‐related traumata

Basic assumptions and symptoms of post-traumatic stress among victims of bullying at work

“…However, the PDS scale is one of few self-report measures that assesses all DSM-IV criteria, and has been found to be a highly valid measure of PTSD (Foa et al, 1997). Also, Astin and associates (Astin, Layne, Camilleri, & Foy, 1994) claim that the lack of reliability in self-report measures is mainly due to its tendency to underestimate true cases of PTSD.…”