Resilience and Psychological Trauma Among Filipino American Women
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-20-2019
Publication Title
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
First page number:
1
Last page number:
9
Abstract
Aims: To explore the types of traumatic exposure, prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and level of resilience in a community sample of Filipino American women (FAW), as well as to investigate the relationships between their PTSD symptoms, history of traumatic exposure, and resilience. Method: A cross-sectional study with a total of 188 adult FAW. Results: We observed high levels of resilience and low levels of PTSD symptom severity. The most common form of traumatic exposure was non-interpersonal trauma occurring after the age of 18 years old. We also found a significant correlation between history of traumatic exposure and PTSD and between resilience and PTSD. Resilience was found to have a significant moderating effect on the relationship between traumatic exposure and PTSD. Conclusions: The results provide preliminary evidence on the buffering and protective properties of FAW's resilience to PTSD despite traumatic exposure.
Keywords
Resilience; PTSD; Filipino American women; Trauma
Disciplines
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing | Women's Health
Language
English
Repository Citation
Reyes, A. T.,
Constantino, R. E.,
Cross, C. L.,
Tan, R. A.,
Bombard, J. N.,
Acupan, A. R.
(2019).
Resilience and Psychological Trauma Among Filipino American Women.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
1-9.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2019.08.008