Trauma typologies and internalizing psychopathology: A hierarchical perspective on the unique role of congruent and incongruent criterion a stressors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Trauma exposure poses a risk for diagnoses beyond trauma and stressor-related disorders listed in current psychological taxonomies. Alternative models, such as the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology, posit that psychological phenomena are better organized in a hierarchical manner, with broader dimensions accounting for the covariation among lower order syndromes. Thus, the present study investigated the relationships between trauma exposure and internalizing syndromes through higher order psychological dimensions.

Method

Undergraduates (N = 585) at a large midwestern university completed questionnaires, which included the Life Events Checklist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.), the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Che

SUBMITTER: Cole TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12318114 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature