Religious coping and levels of posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology after the Beirut explosion.

Ian GreyJustin ThomasJana Mansour JamaleddineToufic YaktineMan Cheung Chung

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2023)

Higher scores on measures of negative religious coping were associated with higher levels of PTSD symptomatology. However, negative religious coping may be better construed as a set of religious-based appraisals of event causality and may represent a form of peritraumatic appraisal in the wake of traumatic events. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

posttraumatic stress disorder
social support
depressive symptoms
spinal cord injury
adverse drug
emergency department