Trauma reminders and disgust: The roles of posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity, trauma type, and reminder type.

ABSTRACT: Disgust is a common emotional response to trauma but is studied less frequently than fear or other negative emotions. In laboratory settings, individuals with a history of sexual assault report more disgust following exposure to trauma reminders than those exposed to other trauma types, and people with more severe posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms typically report more disgust than those with lower symptom levels. It remains unknown whether this association is also present in ecological contexts and if these associations vary by trauma reminder type. The present sample included 80 trauma-exposed community members (PTSD: n = 39, no PTSD: n = 41) who completed up to 17 prompts per day for 3 days (2,158 total completed surveys). Multilevel models indicated that trauma reminders we

SUBMITTER: Nester MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11629848 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature