Background
Methods
Participants and procedure
Psychological evaluation
Statistical analyses
Results
Personal attributes and the results of the univariate analyses
PTSR | GPD | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N
| % | Mean |
SD
| Mean |
SD
| |
Sex | ||||||
Male | 214 | 94.3 | 4.6 | 6.7 | 12.7 | 3.6 |
Female | 13 | 5.7 | 7.7 | 6.3 | 17.2*** | 8.0 |
Marital status | ||||||
Single | 81 | 35.7 | 4.0 | 5.9 | 12.4 | 3.5 |
Married | 146 | 64.3 | 5.2 | 7.1 | 13.2 | 4.4 |
Rank | ||||||
Enlisted/Private | 143 | 63.0 | 4.3 | 5.8 | 12.3 | 3.1 |
Officer | 84 | 37.0 | 5.6 | 7.9 | 13.9** | 5.3 |
Unit | ||||||
Medical | 53 | 23.3 | 5.9 | 7.1 | 14.1a | 5.3 |
Airlift | 97 | 42.7 | 4.8 | 7.5 | 13.0 | 3.8 |
Others | 77 | 33.9 | 3.9 | 5.3 | 12.0 | 3.2 |
Disaster relief experience | ||||||
Yes | 193 | 85.0 | 4.3 | 6.1 | 12.6 | 3.9 |
No | 34 | 15.0 | 7.5* | 8.9 | 14.9** | 4.6 |
Exposure to bodies | ||||||
No | 216 | 95.2 | 4.8 | 6.8 | 12.9 | 4.1 |
Yes | 11 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 13.5 | 4.6 |
Psychiatric treatment history | ||||||
No | 219 | 98.2 | 4.8 | 6.7 | 12.9 | 4.1 |
Yes | 4 | 1.8 | 8.5 | 7.2 | 11.0 | 2.0 |
Psychological measures and correlation analyses
IES-R | K10 | IRI_PT | IRI_FS | IRI_EC | IRI_PD | Mean | SD | Median | Range | Cronbach’s alpha | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IES-R | – | .59*** | .07 | .28*** | .05 | .25*** | 4.77 | 6.70 | 2 | 0–40 | 0.91 |
K10 | – | .13 | .23*** | .18** | .35*** | 12.91 | 4.09 | 11 | 10–39 | 0.89 | |
IRI_PT | – | .14* | .43*** | .04 | 15.90 | 4.09 | 16 | 5–28 | 0.63 | ||
IRI_FS | – | .22** | .39*** | 9.67 | 4.28 | 9 | 0–22 | 0.62 | |||
IRI_EC | – | .28*** | 16.89 | 3.59 | 17 | 8–28 | 0.57 | ||||
IRI_PD | – | 10.31 | 3.88 | 10 | 2–22 | 0.65 |
Hierarchical linear regression analyses
PTSR Hierarchial Models | GPD Hierarchial Models | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Standardized Coefficient β | Standardized Coefficient β | |||||
Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | |
Personal Attributes | ||||||
Age | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | −0.05 | −0.05 | − 0.04 |
Sexa | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.26*** | 0.23** | 0.18** |
Marital statusb | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.19** | 0.18* | 0.22** |
Disaster relief experiencec | −0.18** | − 0.17* | −0.15* | − 0.19** | −0.17* | − 0.13* |
Psychiatric treatment historyc | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.1 | −0.05 | −0.05 | − 0.06 |
Work-related factors | ||||||
Rankd | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.09 | 0.04 | ||
Medical unitc | 0.09 | 0.1 | 0.18* | 0.18* | ||
Airlift unitc | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.16* | 0.12 | ||
Exposure to bodiesc | −0.06 | −0.03 | 0.03 | 0.06 | ||
Dispositional Empathy | ||||||
IRI_PT | 0.05 | 0.04 | ||||
IRI_FS | 0.21** | 0.08 | ||||
IRI_EC | −0.11 | 0.03 | ||||
IRI_PD | 0.18* | 0.28*** | ||||
Statistics | ||||||
R2 | 0.057 | 0.071 | 0.164 | 0.13 | 0.166 | 0.271 |
ΔR2 | 0.014 | 0.093 | 0.036 | 0.106 | ||
F | 2.635* | 1.815 | 3.150 *** | 6.475*** | 4.696*** | 5.984*** |