Citation

Melinder A, Augusti EM, Matre M, Endestad T. Psychol. Trauma 2015; 7(6): 583-590.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/tra0000048

PMID

26121171

Abstract

Terror attacks cause variation in everyday functioning across several domains. This paper focuses on the individual long-term costs in terms of clinical symptoms and cognitive (e.g., shifting, inhibition, and spatial working memory) difficulties associated with these symptoms in 24 survivors of a terror attack in Norway. Another 24 controls were included for comparison purposes. Participants were administered a battery of clinical and neurocognitive tests.

RESULTS showed that all clinical variables differed as a function of group, ps ≤.001, η2 ≥.64, but no significant differences were revealed for the neurocognitive measures. In the survivor group, shifting capacity and its interaction with gender predicted intrusion symptoms, p =.045, ηp2 =.338, and symptoms of avoidance, p =.008, ηp2 =.453. We discuss the findings in relation to theoretical models and therapeutic interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record

Language: en