Cognitive processing of psychological trauma: the role of disclosure in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms

The mechanisms by which disclosure about stressful traumatic events relates to cognitive processing of psychological trauma have attracted a great deal of interest among researchers and therapists. The main question in this study involves the effects of disclosure, whether talking about the psychological trauma in nonclinical settings may affect the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Furthermore, it focuses on the relationship between this disorder and cognitive processing. Quantitative methodology was employed for the realization of this study, with a sample of 150 police officers. Police officers exposed to criminal events reported higher symptoms. The results showed that the higher the urge to talk about the trauma, the lower the post-traumatic stress disorder they experienced, and adapted cognitive processing reduced the severity of this disorder. Women have a higher incentive to talk about trauma. The findings and conclusions of this scientific research can serve as a basis for understanding the role of disclosure about stressful or traumatic events in cognitive processing and the clinical work of psychologists for the psychological care of police employees

The Myth of Enver Hoxha in the Albanian Cinema of Socialist Realism: An Inquiry into the Psychoanalytical Features of the Myth

From the Dossier Marking Political Cinem

Ethnic outgroup aggression : a pilot study on the importance of emotion regulation, nationalism and susceptibility to persuasion

The current pilot study investigated the psychological mechanisms behind ethnic outgroup aggression, a significant outcome of intergroup conflicts. While previous research suggested several impactful predictors of ethnic outgroup aggression, such as intergroup contact and nationalism, no attempt has been made to synthesize all these constructs into a single crosscultural study. Building on existing research, this pilot study is the first to assess a refined framework where we tested a proposed mediation model according to nationalism and emotion regulation mediate the relationship between intergroup contact, susceptibility to persuasion, and intergroup anxiety on the one hand and ethnic outgroup aggression on the other hand within a cross-cultural sample. An online questionnaire was distributed using convenience sampling among 2482 students with an ethnic majority background living and studying in ten (European) countries. Multigroup path analysis supported the larger part of the hypothesized model where we found that emotion regulation partially mediated the relationship between susceptibility to persuasion as a predictor and aggression as an outcome. As expected, we found that the higher the susceptibility to persuasion, the higher the emotion regulation, and the higher the regulation, the lower the aggression in all countries. Our pilot study provided preliminary evidence that emotion regulation, nationalism and susceptibility to persuasion are critical for the understanding of ethnic outgroup aggression in ethnically diverse societies. Future research needs to be carried out focusing on the development of an intergroup anxiety assessment in which possible gender dif-ferences in assessed constructs are considered