Citation

Hickling EJ, Blanchard EB, Buckley TC, Taylor AE. J. Trauma. Stress 1999; 12(2): 345-353.

Affiliation

Sage Colleges, University at Albany-SUNY 12203, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1023/A:1024784711484

PMID

10378171

Abstract

In light of Delahanty et al.'s (1997) identification of attribution of responsibility for a motor vehicle accident (MVA) as a powerful determinant of initial level of distress from the trauma and of early remission of PTSD, we reexamined data from Blanchard and Hickling's (1997) prospective follow-up of 158 MVA survivors. Despite differences between the two samples (Delahanty sample recruited from hospitals 2-3 weeks post-MVA and predominantly male; our sample recruited from outpatient care 1-4 months post-MVA and predominantly female) we replicated Delahanty's findings: those with PTSD who blame themselves for the MVA are less symptomatic initially and recover more rapidly in the first 6 months than those with PTSD who blame another party for the accident.

Language: en