@article{ref1,
title="PTSD and alcohol misuse: examining the mediating role of fear of self-compassion among military veterans",
journal="Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy",
year="2019",
author="Forkus, Shannon R. and Breines, Juliana G. and Weiss, Nicole H.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: The co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol misuse presents a significant clinical concern among military veterans. Fear of self-compassion, the active resistance to thinking and behaving compassionately toward oneself, may be an important consideration that underlies this relation. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: The current investigation examined whether self-compassion and fear of self-compassion, separately, mediated the association between PTSD symptoms and alcohol misuse among a sample of military veterans. <br><br>METHOD: Data were collected from 203 military veterans (<i>M</i> age = 35.08 years, 77.70% male, 72.2% White) who responded to an online survey. <br><br>RESULTS: The findings indicated that both self-compassion and fear of self-compassion significantly explained the association between PTSD symptoms and alcohol misuse. Furthermore, fear of self-compassion explained this relation after adjusting for levels of self-compassion. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that both self-compassion and a fear of self-compassion may be important considerations in the PTSD-alcohol misuse relation; future work should extend these findings in longitudinal and intervention frameworks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1942-9681",
doi="10.1037/tra0000481",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000481"
}