SMC Spring Speakers: ‘Effects of Social Support on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Evidence from the Wenchuan Earthquake’

By jcronin | Published: March 29, 2013
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Event:
SMC Spring Speakers: ‘Effects of Social Support on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Evidence from the Wenchuan Earthquake’
Start:
April 2, 2013 12:00 pm
End:
April 2, 2013 1:00 pm
Category:
Email:
murphy.p@temple.edu
Venue:
Annenberg Hall, Room 301
Address:
2020 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, United States

Kaibin Xu
Assistant Professor
Department of Strategic Communication
Temple University

This study investigated the relationship between social support and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among adolescents who were exposed to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China.

Three hypothesis were proposed and tested:

  • the linear negative relationship
  • the exposure severity-moderated relationship
  • the U-shaped curvilinear relationship

The results supported the linear negative main effects: the relationship between social support and the symptoms of PTSD are negative, after controlling for the effects of gender, age, residency and exposure severity. Moderation and U-shaped curvilinear effects of social support were not found. The findings also show that social support has significant effects on PTSD.

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