“Brief report: Investigating the relationship between PTSD symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the Middle East”

Objective: The objective of this study was to establish the relationship between symptoms of PTSD and various score of emotional intelligence scales. Methods: This study was a crosssectional research design. Participants were recruited from the local community health center in Dearborn, Michigan....

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Main Author: Siti Raudzah, Ghazali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ASEAN federation of Psychiatry and Mental Health 2014
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description Objective: The objective of this study was to establish the relationship between symptoms of PTSD and various score of emotional intelligence scales. Methods: This study was a crosssectional research design. Participants were recruited from the local community health center in Dearborn, Michigan. Child Posttraumatic Stress Reaction Index (CPTS-RI) measured the presence of PTSD symptoms and the Adolescents Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale (AMEIS) measured emotional intelligence. Results: Findings suggest an inverse relationship between PTSD severity and emotional intelligence. The PTSD score was negatively correlated with all AMEIS subscales. Two significant negative correlations were found in the tasks of using emotion and understanding emotion. Conclusion: Findings suggest that individuals with severe PTSD symptoms appear to lack the abilities to understand and use emotions. It was expected that the findings will be useful in identifying factors that may decrease or contribute to decreasing the severity of PTSD symptoms of these children. Implications of the findings were discussed, and recommendations for future research were presented.
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spelling unimas-168192021-06-29T17:27:50Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16819/ “Brief report: Investigating the relationship between PTSD symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the Middle East” Siti Raudzah, Ghazali RA Public aspects of medicine Objective: The objective of this study was to establish the relationship between symptoms of PTSD and various score of emotional intelligence scales. Methods: This study was a crosssectional research design. Participants were recruited from the local community health center in Dearborn, Michigan. Child Posttraumatic Stress Reaction Index (CPTS-RI) measured the presence of PTSD symptoms and the Adolescents Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale (AMEIS) measured emotional intelligence. Results: Findings suggest an inverse relationship between PTSD severity and emotional intelligence. The PTSD score was negatively correlated with all AMEIS subscales. Two significant negative correlations were found in the tasks of using emotion and understanding emotion. Conclusion: Findings suggest that individuals with severe PTSD symptoms appear to lack the abilities to understand and use emotions. It was expected that the findings will be useful in identifying factors that may decrease or contribute to decreasing the severity of PTSD symptoms of these children. Implications of the findings were discussed, and recommendations for future research were presented. ASEAN federation of Psychiatry and Mental Health 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16819/1/Siti.pdf Siti Raudzah, Ghazali (2014) “Brief report: Investigating the relationship between PTSD symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the Middle East”. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, 15 (1). ISSN 2231-7791 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259539837
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Siti Raudzah, Ghazali
“Brief report: Investigating the relationship between PTSD symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the Middle East”
title “Brief report: Investigating the relationship between PTSD symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the Middle East”
title_full “Brief report: Investigating the relationship between PTSD symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the Middle East”
title_fullStr “Brief report: Investigating the relationship between PTSD symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the Middle East”
title_full_unstemmed “Brief report: Investigating the relationship between PTSD symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the Middle East”
title_short “Brief report: Investigating the relationship between PTSD symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the Middle East”
title_sort “brief report: investigating the relationship between ptsd symptoms and emotional intelligence among adolescent refugees from the middle east”
topic RA Public aspects of medicine
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16819/
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16819/1/Siti.pdf