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From self-integration in personal schemas of morally experiences to self-awareness of mental states : A qualitative study among a sample of Portuguese war veterans

dc.contributor.authorFerrajão, Paulo
dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Rui Aragão Gomes
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-16T19:00:10Z
dc.date.available2015-03-16T19:00:10Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis study explored the factors to which a sample of Portuguese war veterans attributed their recovery from posttraumatic symptoms related to their war experiences. Participants were a sample (n 60) of war veterans with mental sequelae of the Portuguese Colonial war: 30 suffered from chronic PTSD (unrecovered) and 30 veterans with remission from PTSD (recovered). Two individual semistructured interviews were conducted. Analysis of the interviews was conducted using the Thematic and Categorical Analysis. Six themes were identified to which participants attributed their recovery: war zone stressors, stressful life events, mental and coping strategies, self-integration in personal schemas of morally incongruent experiences, self-awareness of mental states, and perceived social support. Recovered participants showed higher occurrence of integration of the morally incongruent events within existing personal schemas, self-awareness of mental states, and use of problem focused coping. Unrecovered participants showed higher occurrence of lack of self-awareness of mental states, use of acting out strategies and lack of social support. The authors discussed that reconciliation of morally discrepant experiences in their self- and relational-schemas, and development of higher self-awareness of their own mental states can play a pivotal role in recovery from PTSD among war veterans.por
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)por
dc.identifier.citationTraumatology, Advance online publication, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/trm0000019por
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/trm0000019
dc.identifier.issn1085-9373
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/3474
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Associationpor
dc.relationSFRH/BD/68561/2010).por
dc.subjectAssimilationpor
dc.subjectMoral injurypor
dc.subjectPTSDpor
dc.subjectRemissionpor
dc.subjectWar traumapor
dc.titleFrom self-integration in personal schemas of morally experiences to self-awareness of mental states : A qualitative study among a sample of Portuguese war veteranspor
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage10por
oaire.citation.startPage1por
oaire.citation.titleTraumatologypor
rcaap.rightsrestrictedAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor

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