title: Quality of parental relationships among persons with a lifetime history of posttraumatic stress disorder.
abstract: Several studies of combat veterans have examined the relationship between parental satisfaction and PTSD symptoms. These studies found that numbing is associated with substantial decrements in parent-child relationship quality. The current study extends previous work by assessing the effect of PTSD on parent-child relationships in a nationally representative sample of civilian men and women with PTSD resulting from a broad range of trauma. It was hypothesized that PTSD avoidance/numbing symptoms would be predictive of parent-child relationship quality and parent-child conflict. Moreover, these relationships are predicted to hold after controlling for a broad range of support-related variables and work/finance related variables. As hypothesized, after controlling for number of children and respondent-initiated domestic violence, numbing was predictive of increased parent-child aggression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA. dlauterba@emich.edu
authors.forename: Dean
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lauterbach
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bak
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Reiland
authors.forename: Shawn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mason
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Lute
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Earls
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000523:psychology; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012944:Social Support; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States