title: The relationship among cognitive schemas, job-related traumatic exposure, and posttraumatic stress disorder in journalists.
abstract: American newspaper journalists (N = 906) participated in a study examining a cognitive mediational model for explaining the relationship between exposure to work-related traumatic events and work-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Results indicated (a) greater exposure to work-related traumatic events was associated with work-related PTSD symptoms, as well as negative cognitive schemas; (b) cognitive beliefs partially accounted for PTSD symptoms, but the full cognitive mediational model was not supported. Implications include targeting interventions for journalists who experience traumatic stress and modifying theories about PTSD symptoms in journalists.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114, USA.
authors.forename: Caroline M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Pyevich
authors.forename: Elana
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Daleiden
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020452:Journalism; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D009790:Occupations; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence