“The buffering effect of ego resiliency on the relationship of combat exposure and severity of post – traumatic stress disorder symptoms”

• Main Author: Ruanto, Jenny Marie Davantes
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: Soldiers; Combat—Psychological aspects; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Adjustment (Psychology); Ego (Psychology); Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_psych/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=etdm_psych
• Institution: De La Salle University

Combat exposure (CE) can lead to a violent, traumatic and life–threatening experience that can scathe a soldier with invisible wounds that maim and damage his psyche. One of these is the development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Recent studies revealed that as high as 48% of ret...