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Objective: Cognitive models posit negative trauma appraisals as maintaining symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. Recent research has demonstrated that alienation appraisals (feeling disconnected from the self and others) are salient in trauma-related distress. Studies show that alienation appraisals fully mediated the relationship between trauma exposure and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in trauma-exposed adults. This study explored alienation appraisals in student and clinical samples, assessing whether alienation significantly mediated the relationship between cumulative trauma and trauma-related distress. It also explored whether alexithymia, social support, and loneliness also mediated the relationship between cumulative trauma and markers of trauma-related distress, clarifying the role of alienation.
Method: Mediation and hierarchical regression models were tested with questionnaire data from a student sample ( = 100) and clinical sample of trauma-exposed treatment-seeking adults ( = 93).
Results: In the student sample, alienation ( = 1.27) fully mediated the relationship between cumulative trauma and posttraumatic stress, but not depression. When alexithymia, social support, and loneliness were entered as parallel mediators, only alienation appraisals ( = 1.03) significantly mediated the relationship between cumulative trauma and posttraumatic stress. For the clinical sample, alienation appraisals (β = .53) were the only significant predictor of posttraumatic stress, while alienation appraisals (β = .75) and, to a lesser extent, social support (β = .19) and loneliness (β = .30) significantly predicted depression.
Conclusions: Alienation was a salient predictor of posttraumatic distress. Clinical assessment of alienation appraisals is recommended to inform psychological interventions for trauma survivors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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