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- Title
Avoiding awareness of betrayal: Comment on Lindblom and Gray (2009).
- Authors
FREYD, JENNIFER J.; KLEST, BRIDGET; DEPRINCE, ANNE P.
- Abstract
Betrayal trauma theory (BTT) predicts that unawareness of abuse by someone on whom a victim is dependent may serve to protect a necessary relationship. Lindblom and Gray (2009) contribute to a growing line of BTT studies by measuring narrative detail in a sample of undergraduates who met Criterion A of the PTSD diagnosis and who rated the abuse as their most distressing trauma. Although many core betrayal traumas do not fit Criterion A, Lindblom and Gray found a small effect in the predicted direction. Having found an effect as predicted by BTT, curiously the authors then argue that PTSD Avoidance is a confound for forgetting the abuse to be statistically managed. This is particularly curious since symptom 3 of Criterion C is ‘inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma’. Despite constraining participant selection and other methodological issues, Lindblom and Gray's results add support to BTT. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
BETRAYAL; TRAUMATISM; UNDERGRADUATES; COGNITIVE psychology; MEMORY; EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Publication
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
0888-4080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/acp.1555