| | | Document Type | : | Latin Dissertation | | Language of Document | : | English | | Record Number | : | 53021 | | Doc. No | : | TL22975 | | Call number | : | 3178868 | | Main Entry | : | Sara Larios Mitchell | | Title & Author | : | The effects of journal -writing and story -listening on world assumptions, health, and religiousness following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001Sara Larios Mitchell | | College | : | Institute of Transpersonal Psychology | | Date | : | 2005 | | Degree | : | Ph.D. | | student score | : | 2005 | | Page No | : | 205 | | Abstract | : | This study investigated religiousness as an outcome measure, the persistence of traumatic effects, health, and worldviews after 9/11. Previous research found that trauma could affect these variables. This investigation was a secondary data analysis of an analog comparative clinical trial examining the impact of two interventions—journal-writing and story-listening—on worldviews, health, and religiousness. University students were randomly assigned to write about their emotional responses to 9/11 or listen to relevant stories. The Impact of Events Scale (IES), the World Assumption Scale (WAS), the Age-Universal Intrinsic/Extrinsic Scale-Revised (AUI/E-R), the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-24), and the PTSD Checklist (PCL-C) were administered at baseline (T1) and at the 4-month follow-up (T3). No significant difference resulted between the interventions at baseline and follow-up on a MANOVA comparing the groups on religiousness, worldviews, and health. Both groups reported significant negative worldviews in all subscales and significant diminishment in self-reported general health, social functioning, and mental health, corroborating the studies indicating that trauma leads to negative worldviews but contradicting the research on the positive health effects of journal-writing. Results may be due to selection bias as perhaps the most traumatized completed the follow-up measures. The hypothesis that higher levels of religiousness would predict lower levels of self-reported trauma was not supported when a MANOVA compared baseline to follow-up. Multiple regression analyses explored all dependent measures; a relationship between religiousness and trauma resulted in which the IES avoidance subscale made the most statistically significant contribution in predicting extrinsic religiousness in the story-listening group. Results indicated that both groups displayed increased intrusion, avoidance, and PTSD symptoms by follow-up. Findings demonstrate persistent and pervasive effects of 9/11 across trauma, worldview, and health measures; reasons discussed included retraumatization due to continued terror threats, the Afghanistan war, and press coverage. | | Subject | : | Psychology; Health; Journal; Religiousness; September 11, 2001; Story listening; Terrorist; Trauma; World assumptions; Psychotherapy; Experiments; 0623:Psychology; 0622:Psychotherapy; 0623:Experiments | | Added Entry | : | K. Wall | | Added Entry | : | Institute of Transpersonal Psychology |
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