TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality and PTSD II
T2 - Personality assessment of PTSD-diagnosed Vietnam veterans using the cloninger tridimensional personality questionnaire (TPQ)
AU - Richman, Harvey
AU - Frueh, B. Christopher
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Examined Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) responses of 53 Vietnam veterans with Combat-Related Posttraumatic stress disorder. When compared with normative data, veterans were found to be high on harm avoidance (HA), low on reward dependence (RD), and high on novelty seeking (NS). High HA and high NS scores were predictive of increased PTSD symptom severity as assessed by the MMPI-2 PK (PTSD)scale, Mississippi Combat Scale for PTSD (M-PTSD), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Low RD was associated with higher scores on both the MMPI-2 PK and M-PTSD scales. The observed 'high HA-low RD-high NS' TPQ configuration is consistent with previous research findings/clinical observations, and provides insights into a pattern of dysfunctional personality traits often observed in this population.
AB - Examined Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) responses of 53 Vietnam veterans with Combat-Related Posttraumatic stress disorder. When compared with normative data, veterans were found to be high on harm avoidance (HA), low on reward dependence (RD), and high on novelty seeking (NS). High HA and high NS scores were predictive of increased PTSD symptom severity as assessed by the MMPI-2 PK (PTSD)scale, Mississippi Combat Scale for PTSD (M-PTSD), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Low RD was associated with higher scores on both the MMPI-2 PK and M-PTSD scales. The observed 'high HA-low RD-high NS' TPQ configuration is consistent with previous research findings/clinical observations, and provides insights into a pattern of dysfunctional personality traits often observed in this population.
KW - PTSD
KW - Personality traits
KW - Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ)
KW - Vietnam veterans
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U2 - 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1997)6:2<70::AID-DA3>3.0.CO;2-9
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6394(1997)6:2<70::AID-DA3>3.0.CO;2-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 9451548
AN - SCOPUS:0031425980
SN - 1091-4269
VL - 6
SP - 70
EP - 77
JO - Depression and Anxiety
JF - Depression and Anxiety
IS - 2
ER -