The Affective Control Scale: Factor structure and associations with posttraumatic stress symptoms in trauma-exposed male veterans.

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2020)

Both general and specific fears of emotion were associated with specific PTSD symptoms in trauma-exposed veterans. Despite this, results support the use of a modified ACS total score, capturing general fear of emotion, rather than the subscale scores, capturing fear of specific emotions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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