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" Associations between cognitive functioning and posttraumatic stress reactions in war -exposed Bosnian and Slovenian school teachers "
Jennifer Mortensen Sumner C. M. Layne

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	54988
Doc. No	:	TL24942
Call number	:	‭3173752‬
Main Entry	:	Jennifer Mortensen Sumner
Title & Author	:	Associations between cognitive functioning and posttraumatic stress reactions in war -exposed Bosnian and Slovenian school teachers\ Jennifer Mortensen Sumner
College	:	Brigham Young University
Date	:	2005
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2005
Page No	:	55
Abstract	:	This multi-site study examined neurocognitive functioning in Bosnian and Slovenian secondary school teachers who survived the 1991–1995 civil conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Thirty-four teachers reporting low levels of posttraumatic stress reactions and 17 teachers reporting high levels of posttraumatic stress reactions were administered cognitive measures of attention and memory. Using partial correlations, subjects' scores on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Functioning (Randolph, 1998) were compared to posttraumatic stress reactions as measured by the Reaction Index-Revised (Pynoos, Rodriguez, Steinberg, & Frederick, 1999). Posttraumatic stress scores were inversely correlated with measures of immediate and delayed memory functioning when controlling for age and intellectual ability. These findings suggest that teachers who report lower levels of posttraumatic stress perform better on tests of memory functioning.
Subject	:	Psychology; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Cognitive functioning; Memory; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Slovenian; Teachers; War-exposed; Cognitive therapy; Psychobiology; 0633:Cognitive therapy; 0349:Psychobiology
Added Entry	:	C. M. Layne
Added Entry	:	Brigham Young University