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Post‐traumatic stress disorder conflicts in Vietnam combat veterans: A confirmatory factor analytic study
Author(s) -
Glover Hillel,
Pelesky Cathy A.,
Bruno Ralph,
Sette Richard
Publication year - 1990
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.2490030408
Subject(s) - psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , clinical psychology , anxiety , depression (economics) , psychiatry , aggression , anxiety disorder , vulnerability (computing) , psychometrics , structural equation modeling , statistics , mathematics , computer security , computer science , economics , macroeconomics
Three hundred and thirty‐nine Vietnam combat veterans with the diagnosis of Post‐traumatic Stress Disorder were administered the Vietnam Related Experiences Questionnaire. The items on this questionnaire were constructed to highlight four combat related conflicts postulated to represent the salient symptom clusters within PTSD: fear‐anxiety, mistrust, survival guilt, and guilt secondary to aggression. Exploratory factor analysis followed by a confirmatory factor analytic procedure using maximum likelihood estimate demonstrated a five‐factor solution: vulnerability, guilt, dreams of death/destruction, depression, and rebelliousness. The factor loadings of the variables and the factor correlations are discussed. Diagnostic features of the questionnaire are highlighted.