Citation

Ben-Ezra M, Pitcho-Prelorentzos S, Mahat-Shamir M. Psychiatry Res. 2016; 246: 545-547.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.psychres.2016.10.016

PMID

27821367

Abstract

This study examined the association between self-report associative memories of prior traumatic events and psychological distress up to 48h after a terror attack. To date, the number of studies that examined this association is very small and most were conducted weeks or even months post event. For this purpose, we examined the association between self-report associative memories of prior traumatic events beyond factors such as previous exposure to trauma, political shift and sense of safety. The results showed that self-report associative memories of prior traumatic events were significantly associated with psychological distress. These results could be explained by the similarity and recency effects.

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