Examining the factor structure of PTSD between male and female veterans in primary care
- Hall, B. J., Elhai, J. D., Grubaugh, A., Tuerk, P., & Magruder, K. (2012). Examining the factor structure of PTSD between male and female veterans in primary care. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 26(3), 409-415. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.12.015
- Researchers assessed possible gender differences between two prevailing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) models – the emotional numbing (e.g., re-experiencing, avoidance, emotional numbing and arousal) and dysphoria (e.g., re-experiencing, avoidance, dysphoria and arousal) models – in order to establish whether one model is more generalizable with regard to both genders in a sample of trauma-exposed (any lifetime trauma) U.S. Veterans. Results suggest that the “emotional numbing” model may be best for cross-gender comparisons of PTSD.
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