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Partners' ratings of combat veterans' PTSD symptomatology
Author(s) -
Taft Casey T.,
King Lynda A.,
King Daniel W.,
Leskin Gregory A.,
Riggs David S.
Publication year - 1999
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 - 10.1023/a:1024780610575
Subject(s) - concordance , bivariate analysis , psychology , clinical psychology , marital status , veterans affairs , scale (ratio) , psychiatry , medicine , environmental health , population , statistics , quantum mechanics , physics , mathematics
The current study examined the concordance of combat veterans' scores on the Mississippi Scale for Combat‐Related PTSD, with scores on a parallel version of that instrument completed by partners to assess veterans' symptoms. Further, the study examined the impact of quality of the marital relationship on score concordance. Bivariate and multiple regression were used with a sample of 466 veteran‐partner dyads obtained from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. There was moderate agreement in symptom reporting between veterans and their partners and little evidence to suggest that the quality of the relationship impacted upon the association between partner and veteran scores.