TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - The influence of data-driven versus conceptually-driven processing on the development of PTSD-like symptoms
JO  - Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry
A1  - Kindt, Merel
A1  - van den Hout, Marcel
A1  - Arntz, Arnoud
A1  - Drost, Jolijn
SP  - 546
EP  - 557
VL  - 39
IS  - 4
N2  - Ehlers and Clark [(2000). A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38, 319-345] propose that a predominance of data-driven processing during the trauma predicts subsequent PTSD. We wondered whether, apart from data-driven encoding, sustained data-driven processing after the trauma is also crucial for the development of PTSD. Both hypotheses were tested in two analogue experiments. Experiment 1 demonstrated that relative to conceptually-driven processing (n=20), data-driven processing after the film (n=14), resulted in more intrusions. Experiment 2 demonstrated that relative to the neutral condition (n=24) and the data-driven encoding condition (n=24), conceptual encoding (n=25) reduced suppression of intrusions and a trend emerged for memory fragmentation. The difference between the two encoding styles was due to the beneficial effect of induced conceptual encoding and not to the detrimental effect of data-driven encoding. The data support the viability of the distinction between data-driven/conceptually-driven processing for the understanding of the development of PTSD.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0005-7916
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2007.12.003
ID  - ref1
ER  -