The impact of cohesive groups in the trauma recovery context: Police spouse survivors and duty-related death

Violanti, John M.

doi:10.1007/bf02110670

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“…We cannot control the occurrence of TS, but we do exercise control over the systems and structures that support the missionaries we send. The value of these structures was demonstrated in Violanti's (1996) study of police spouse survivors, where he found that the higher spouses' satisfaction with police agencies and police fraternal groups the lower their symptom scores, and as the quality of interaction with police friends became more positive, so did their measure of psychological distress. These findings suggest the need for more definitive investigation into the role and characteristics of interpersonal relationships as buffers and, in their failure, as etiologic for TS problems.…”

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Traumatic Stress in a Missionary Population: Dimensions and Impact

Irvine¹,

Armentrout

Miner

2006

Journal of Psychology and Theology

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Data Mining procedures were used to analyze responses of 173 missionaries surveyed about the nature and impact of traumatic stress (TS) they may have experienced while on the field. TS was almost universal, with the most frequent types involving system failure or personal crisis; there was also a high incidence of permanent negative change in those reporting TS, and over a third of these reported continuing symptoms almost a decade post-incident. Non-catastrophic stressors and stressors involving System Failure (particularly those with peer-System Failure) had higher TS impact. Severity, as seen in Total Impact and Total Number of Symptoms, was related to permanent negative change, as was age, with younger missionaries (possibly a generational rather than age or experience issue) being more vulnerable. Both destructive and salutogenic change were associated with TS, but no predictive variables were found for the latter.

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confidence: 99%