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Traumatic stress in Japanese broadcast journalists
Author(s) -
Hatanaka Miho,
Matsui Yutaka,
Ando Kiyoshi,
Inoue Kako,
Fukuoka Yoshiharu,
Koshiro Eiko,
Itamura Hidenori
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.20496
Subject(s) - posttraumatic stress , traumatic stress , event (particle physics) , psychology , stress (linguistics) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Job‐related traumatic stress experienced by broadcast journalists in Japan was investigated. A questionnaire inquiring about the most traumatic event they faced when covering the news and the Impact of Event Scale‐Revised (IES‐R) were administered to 270 journalist participants working for Japanese news companies. Of these, 6% met the IES‐R criterion for potential posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Moreover, posttraumatic stress reactions at the time of the survey were strongly related to symptoms of stress experienced during the stressful assignment. The early assessment of stress symptoms in journalists that experience traumatic news coverage is important for preventing the development of PTSD symptoms.