Is television traumatic? Dreams, stress, and media exposure in the aftermath of september 11, 2001

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 334-340

  Propper, Ruth E ^a   Stickgold, Robert ^b   Keeley, Raeann ^a   Christman, Stephen D ^c  

^a MERRIMACK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DREAM; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TELEVISION; TERRORISM;

ADULT; DREAMS; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELEVISION;

EID: 34247588325     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01900.x     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Ahern, J., Galea, S., Resnick, H. Vlahov, D. (2004). Television images and probably posttraumatic stress disorder after September 11. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 192, 217 226.
2. David, D. Mellman, T.A. (1997). Dreams following hurricane Andrew. Dreaming, 7, 209 214.
3. Esposito, K., Benitez, A., Barza, L. Mellman, T. (1999). Evaluation of dream content in combat-related PTSD. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 12, 681 687.
4. Hartmann, E. Basile, R. (2003). Dream imagery becomes more intense after 9/11/01. Dreaming, 13, 61 66.
5. Hartmann, E., Zborowski, M. Kunzendorf, R. (2001). The emotion pictured by a dream: An examination of emotions contextualized in dreams. Sleep and Hypnosis, 3, 33 43.
6. Killeen, P.R. (2005). An alternative to null-hypothesis significance tests. Psychological Science, 16, 345 353.
7. Kroth, J., Garcia, M., Hallgren, M., LeGrue, E., Ross, M. Scalise, J. (2004). Perinatal loss, trauma, and dream reports. Psychological Reports, 94, 877 882.
8. Kroth, J., Thompson, L., Jackson, J., Pascali, L. Ferreira, M. (2002). Dream characteristics of stock brokers after a major market downturn. Psychological Reports, 90, 1097 1100.
9. Lee, A., Isaac, M. Janca, A. (2002). Post-traumatic stress disorder and terrorism. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 15, 633 637.
10. Liehr, P., Mehl, M.R., Summers, L.C. Pennebaker, J.W. (2004). Connecting with others in the midst of stressful upheaval on September 11, 2001. Applied Nursing Research, 17, 2 9.
11. Marshall, R.D. Galea, S. (2004). Science for the community: Assessing mental health after 9/11. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 65, 37 43.
12. Mellman, T.A., David, D., Bustamante, V., Torres, J. Fins, A. (2001). Dreams in the acute aftermath of trauma and their relationship to PTSD. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 14, 241 247.
13. Opalic, P. Psihijatrija, D. (2000). Research of the dreams of traumatized subject. Psihijatrija Danas, 32, 129 147.
14. Putnam, F. (2002). Televised trauma and viewer PTSD: Implications for prevention. Psychiatry, 65, 310 312.
15. Schlenger, W.E., Caddell, J.M., Ebert, L., Jordan, B.K., Rourke, K.M., Wilson, D., Thalji, L., Dennis, J.M., Fairbank, J.A. Kulka, R.A. (2002). Psychological reactions to terrorist attacks: Findings from the National Study of Americans' Reactions to September 11. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 581 588.
16. Schreuder, B.J.N., Kleijn, W.C. Rooijmans, H.G.M. (2000). Nocturnal re-experiencing more than forty years after war trauma. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 13, 453 463.
17. Schreuder, B.J.N., van Egmond, M., Kleijn, W.C. Visser, A.T. (1998). Daily reports of posttraumatic nightmares and anxiety dreams in Dutch war victims. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 12, 511 524.
18. Schuster, M.A., Stein, B.D., Jaycox, L., Collins, R.L., Marshall, G.N., Elliott, M.N., Zhou, A.J., Kanouse, D.E., Morrison, J.L. Berry, S.H. (2001). A national survey of stress reactions after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The New England Journal of Medicine, 345, 1507 1512.