Male War-Zone Veterans' Perceived Relationships with Their Children: The Importance of Emotional Numbing
Male War-Zone Veterans' Perceived Relationships with Their Children: The Importance of Emotional Numbing
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男性战区退伍军人与孩子的关系：情感麻木的重要性
作者：
A. M. Ruscio;F. Weathers;Lynda A. King;D. King
尽管人们越来越认识到许多患有创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 的战区退伍军人存在严重的人际关系障碍，但人们对 PTSD 症状与退伍军人与子女关系之间的关系知之甚少。这项研究调查了 66 名男性越南退伍军人的 PTSD 症状群与所感知的父子关系之间的差异模式。分析显示，只有情感麻木簇与所有关系领域的感知质量显着相关。即使在控制了父亲的原生家庭压力源、战斗暴露、抑郁和药物滥用之后，情绪麻木和感知的关系质量之间的关联仍然显着。研究结果表明，情绪麻木可能是创伤后应激障碍的一个组成部分，与战区退伍军人的人际关系障碍最密切相关。
Despite growing recognition of substantial interpersonal impairment among many war-zone veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), little is known about the association between PTSD symptomatology and veterans' relationships with their children. This study examined the differential pattern of associations between the symptom clusters of PTSD and the perceived father–child relationships of 66 male Vietnam veterans. Analyses revealed that only the emotional numbing cluster was significantly related to perceived quality of all relationship domains. The association between emotional numbing and perceived relationship quality remained significant in regression analyses even after controlling for fathers' family-of-origin stressors, combat exposure, depression, and substance abuse. Findings suggest that emotional numbing may be the component of PTSD most closely linked to interpersonal impairment in war-zone veterans.