@article{ref1,
title="Linking self-disgust, negative affect, and PTSD in sexual assault: an ecological momentary assessment approach",
journal="Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy",
year="2023",
author="Olatunji, Bunmi O. and Cox, Rebecca C. and Liu, Qimin and Garcia, Alexa and Jessup, Sarah C.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Although self-disgust has been implicated in sexual assault-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), empirical evidence of this association is limited. <br><br>METHOD: Participants with sexual assault-related PTSD (n = 19), sexual assault without PTSD (n = 20), and healthy controls (n = 21) completed &quot;trait&quot; measures of disgust proneness, self-disgust, and negative affect (NA; i.e., anxiety and depression). An ecological momentary assessment approach was also employed, where participants reported &quot;state&quot; levels of PTSD symptoms, self-disgust, and NA in the morning, afternoon, and evening for 1 week. <br><br>RESULTS: Those with PTSD reported more trait disgust proneness, self-disgust, and NA than those who experienced sexual assault without PTSD and controls. However, those experiencing sexual assault without PTSD and controls did not differ from each other. Participants with a history of sexual assault also experienced higher self-disgust and NA during the week than controls. Those with higher PTSD symptoms during the week also experienced more self-disgust and NA. Similarly, changes in PTSD symptoms were associated with changes in self-disgust and NA during the week. Although a temporal association was found where NA predicted subsequent PTSD symptoms (and vice versa) during the week, a temporal link between self-disgust and PTSD symptoms (or vice versa) was not found. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that the link between self-disgust and sexual assault-related PTSD is more correlational than causal. The implications of these findings for understanding how trait and state self-disgust fits within the broader emotional network of sexual assault-related PTSD are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1942-9681",
doi="10.1037/tra0001424",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0001424"
}