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improvements obtained in all treatment conditions. Overall 52% of the patients were in remission
at 1-year follow up. Improvement was the same in a group or an individual format, with social
skills training or not. All treatments included interpersonal homework performed systematically
and repeatedly in between sessions.
3128.3 Behavioral analysis and interventions of aggression: For the disabled through sports
psychology, Sandhya Singh Kaushik, Banaras Hindu University, India
Aggression is very costly problem behavior. It is often the result of faulty learning in the disabled.
The focus of this paper is on this type of aggressive behavior. A number of behavioral
interventions for aggression, from the area of sports psychology, that have been successfully used
with disabled such as antecedent strategies, teaching alternative skills, token reinforcement,
self-monitoring, etc. The emphasis of this paper is on developing and implementing such
behavioral interventions which are useful, locally available, indegenous and effective for
management of aggression that have been successfully used with disabled.
3128.4 Societal acknowledgement and disclosure of trauma as PTSD predictors in German and
Chinese crime victims, Mueller J.M. 1 , J. Wang 2 , A. Maercker 1 , 1 University of Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland; 2 Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
In German Crime Victims (N=151) the interpersonal variables ‘disclosure of trauma experience’
and ‘societal acknowledgement as a victim’ have been shown to be PTSD predictors additional to
well-known intrapersonal variables. We wanted to know if these variables are transculurally valid
and if cultural values moderate the effects. Therefore 50 Chinese Crime Victims answered the
same questionnaire-set assessing sociodemographics, trauma characteristics, psychopathology,
both interpersonal variables, and cultural values. German as well as Chinese participants with and
without PESD differed significantly in the concerned variables. Additionally, cultural values
moderated these effects. The implications of these findings will be discussed.
3129 ORAL
Health psychology
Chair: Julie Hatfield, Australia
3129.1 The effects of life events of recruits in a model of the relationships among personality,
coping style, social support and mental symptoms, Hongzheng Li, Meiying Lei, Jinfang Yan,
Xiaobing Liu, Yihong Li, 191 Hospital of PLA, Guigang, China
To probe the effects of Life Events of recruits in a Model of the relationships among Personality,
Coping Style, Social Support and Mental Symptoms. 1114 recruits were evaluated after the
military training using Life Events Inventory for Compulsory Servicemen, SCL-90-R, Simple
Coping Style Questionnaire, EPQ and Social Support Scale. Stepwise, interaction and path
analyses were used. The results showed that neuroticism, negative coping style, objective social
support and life events were significant factors determining mental symptoms, absolute value of
each variable was 0.09-0.48. We concluded that mental symptoms can be affected directly by four
variables above.
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