The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
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Berntsen, D; Rubin, DC
February 2006
We introduce a new scale that measures how central an event is to a person's identity and life story. For the most stressful or traumatic event in a person's life, the full 20-item Centrality of Event Scale (CES) and the short 7-item scale are reliable (alpha's of .94 and .88, respectively) in a sample of 707 undergraduates. The scale correlates .38 with PTSD symptom severity and .23 with depression. The present findings are discussed in relation to previous work on individual differences related to PTSD symptoms. Possible connections between the CES and measures of maladaptive attributions and rumination are considered along with suggestions for future research.
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February 2006
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Elsevier BV
Related Subject Headings
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
- Social Identification
- Reproducibility of Results
- Psychometrics
- Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
- Memory
- Male
- Life Change Events
- Identification, Psychological
- Humans
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Berntsen, D., & Rubin, D. C. (2006). The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2005.01.009
Berntsen, Dorthe, and David C. Rubin. “The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.,” February 2006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2005.01.009.
Berntsen, Dorthe, and David C. Rubin. The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. Elsevier BV, Feb. 2006. Dspace, doi:10.1016/j.brat.2005.01.009.
Berntsen D, Rubin DC. The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. Elsevier BV; 2006 Feb;
DOI
Publication Date
February 2006
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Related Subject Headings
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
- Social Identification
- Reproducibility of Results
- Psychometrics
- Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
- Memory
- Male
- Life Change Events
- Identification, Psychological
- Humans