ERIC Number: EJ797004
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Publication Date: 2007-Mar
Pages: 14
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Internalizing and Externalizing Subtypes in Female Sexual Assault Survivors: Implications for the Understanding of Complex PTSD
Miller, Mark W.; Resick, Patricia A.
Behavior Therapy, v38 n1 p58-71 Mar 2007
This study replicated and extended findings of internalizing and externalizing subtypes of posttraumatic psychopathology (Miller, M. W., Greif, J. L., & Smith, A. A. (2003). Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire profiles of veterans with traumatic combat exposure: Internalizing and externalizing subtypes. "Psychological Assessment, 15", 205-215; Miller, M. W., Kaloupek, D. G., Dillon, A. L., & Keane, T.M. (2004). Externalizing and internalizing subtypes of combat-related PTSD: A replication and extension using the PSY-5 Scales. "Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113", 636-645) to a female sample of rape survivors with chronic PTSD. Cluster analyses of Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (Clark, L. A. (1996). "SNAP-Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality: Manual for administration, scoring, and interpretation". Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.) temperament scale profiles from 143 women with PTSD partitioned the sample into a simple PTSD cluster, defined by normal range personality scores and moderate symptomatology, and 2 more "complex" clusters distinguished by more severe tendencies towards externalizing or internalizing psychopathology. Externalizers were characterized by disinhibition, substance dependence, and Cluster B personality disorder features; internalizers by low positive temperament, high rates of major depressive disorder, and elevations on measures of schizoid and avoidant personality disorder. (Contains 5 tables.)
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Psychological Evaluation, Females, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychopathology, Personality, Profiles, Psychological Patterns, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Depression (Psychology), Mental Disorders
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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