Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Many previous studies have shown that trauma survivors, with and without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), engage in more high-risk behaviors (e.g., Smith, Davis, & Fricker-Elhai, 2004).It is unclear whether the trauma exposure itself, or PTSD, is actually associated with the high-risk behaviors.The current study will be one of the first to examine differences in risk-taking between trauma survivors with and without PTSD, and will utilize the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) to test risk-taking propensity in trauma survivors.We expect that trauma survivors with PTSD will engage in more highrisk behaviors, report greater perceived benefits, and demonstrate greater risk-taking propensity than trauma survivors without PTSD.The results of this study were not in support of our hypotheses that those with PTSD would report more overall risk-taking, have higher risk-propensity, or report relatively more expected benefits from high-risk behaviors.
Author: Richard J. Lawrence
Institution: Cleveland State University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2203266136