Resilience enhancing programs in the U.S. military: An exploration of theory and applied practice.

U.S. service members are at an enhanced risk for developing mental disorders.

The mediating role of coping self-efficacy on social support and PTSD symptom severity among injury survivors.

Background: Social support confers a protective effect against elevated PTSD symptomatology following injury. However, little is known about the mechanisms through which social support conveys this protective mental health effect in injury survivors. Coping self-efficacy is linked to both social support and PTSD symptomatology but has not been examined.

Trauma Coping Self-Efficacy: A Context-Specific Self-Efficacy Measure for Traumatic Stress.

Objective: The psychometric properties of a Trauma Coping Self-Efficacy (CSE-T) scale that assesses general trauma-related coping self-efficacy perceptions were assessed.

Method: Measurement equivalence was assessed using several different samples: hospitalized trauma patients (n₁ = 74, n₂ = 69, n₃ = 60), 3 samples of disaster survivors (n₁ = 273, n₂ = 227, n₃ = 138), and trauma-exposed college students (N = 242). This is the first multisample evaluation of the psychometric properties for a general trauma-related CSE measure.