Feelings of Revenge, Retaliation Motive, and Posttraumatic Stress Reactions in Crime Victims

Autor/inn/en	Orth, Ulrich; Montada, Leo; Maercker, Andreas
Titel	Feelings of Revenge, Retaliation Motive, and Posttraumatic Stress Reactions in Crime Victims
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21 (2006) 2, S.229-243 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260505282286
Schlagwörter	Victims of Crime; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Psychological Patterns; Emotional Response; Foreign Countries; Correlation; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Emotionales Verhalten; Ausland; Korrelation; Deutschland
Abstract	Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are often said to experience strong feelings of revenge. However, there is a need for confirmatory empirical studies. Therefore, in a study of 174 victims of violent crimes, the relation between feelings of revenge and posttraumatic stress reactions was investigated. Feelings of revenge were correlated with intrusion and hyperarousal but not with avoidance. Feelings of revenge explained incremental variance of intrusion and hyperarousal when the variance explained by victimological variables was controlled. The retaliation motive implied in feelings of revenge did not account for the relation between feelings of revenge and posttraumatic stress reactions. However, the relation was moderated by the time since victimization. Therefore, feelings of revenge must presumably be regarded as a maladaptive coping reaction to experienced injustice, but not in the first period after victimization. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10