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Parent Status And Post-Traumatic Stress Severity Experienced By Refugees, Holly Taylor Weldon
Parent Status And Post-Traumatic Stress Severity Experienced By Refugees, Holly Taylor Weldon
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Rates of post-traumatic stress in adult refugees are exceedingly high, occurring at ten times that of the general United States population. The current study examines an understudied, but common, potential risk factor to the exacerbation and maintenance of severe post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugee populations: parenting. While parent status is an established correlate of PTSD in other populations (i.e., veterans, broadly defined immigrants), no studies have examined how parent status is related to post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugee populations. The current study draws upon a clinic-presenting sample of 150 refugee adults. Linear regressions were employed to determine (1) whether parent …