Exploring trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress in university students of different identity statuses in Lithuania and Japan /

Inga Truskauskaitė; Kazumi Sugimura; Kazuaki Abe; Shogo Hihara; Yutaka Haramaki; Lina Jovarauskaite; Yuka Kamite; Evaldas Kazlauskas

doi:10.1017/S095457942300161X

Title	Exploring trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress in university students of different identity statuses in Lithuania and Japan /
Authors	Truskauskaitė, Inga ; Sugimura, Kazumi ; Abe, Kazuaki ; Hihara, Shogo ; Haramaki, Yutaka ; Jovarauskaite, Lina ; Kamite, Yuka ; Kazlauskas, Evaldas
DOI	10.1017/S095457942300161X
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Is Part of	Development and psychopathology.. New York : Cambridge University Press. 2024, first published online, p. [1-10].. ISSN 0954-5794. eISSN 1469-2198
Keywords [eng]	Emerging adults ; trauma ; identity ; PTSD ; CPTSD
Abstract [eng]	Emerging adulthood is the time when identity questions are addressed. It is also a time of excessive stress and risk for mental health problems. Different identity statuses relate to different mental health outcomes. Yet, little research has addressed how identity status is interlinked with trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress reactions, especially in multicultural contexts. The current study aimed to explore whether different traumatic experiences are related to the current identity status of university students aged between 18 and 29 years and investigate to what extent trauma-exposed emerging adults of different identity statuses report symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD). In total, 2237 university students from Lithuania ( n = 791) and Japan ( n = 1345) participated in the current study. Identity profiles were revealed by using the Latent Class Analysis approach. Lithuania and Japan were comparable in terms of identity profiles and structure of PTSD/CPTSD. Trauma-exposed emerging adults reported a higher probability of being in troubled diffusion identity status; students in achievement identity status had a lower probability of CPTSD and lower rates of symptoms of disturbances in self-organization. The diffused identity of emerging adults from Lithuania and Japan is associated with trauma exposure, and positive identity is linked with fewer CPTSD reactions.
Published	New York : Cambridge University Press
Type	Journal article
Language	English
Publication date	2024
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