Journal article
Cognitive mechanisms underlying the association between trauma exposure, mental health and social engagement in refugees: A longitudinal investigation
A Nickerson, Y Byrow, M O'Donnell, RA Bryant, V Mau, T McMahon, G Benson, BJ Liddell
Journal of Affective Disorders | ELSEVIER | Published : 2022
Abstract
Backgrounds: Refugees and asylum-seekers are at heightened risk for developing psychological symptoms following exposure to trauma and displacement. Despite this, relatively little is known about the cognitive mechanisms that underlie common mental disorders in refugees. Methods: In this study, we investigated the associations between self-efficacy, beliefs about others (relating to benevolence and trust) and psychological and social outcomes in 1079 refugees from Arabic, Farsi, Tamil or English-speaking backgrounds who were residing in Australia. Participants completed an online survey assessing exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTEs), at baseline (T1), and self-efficacy, beliefs ab..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work is supported by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (AN, BL, MOD, VM; LP160100670) . The funder had no role in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for pub-lication. We would also like to acknowledge the contributions of Rosanna Pajak and Susan Li to study conception and data collection, Zachary Steel and David Berle to study conception, and Stephanie Murphy, Candy Liu, Amber Hamilton, Savannah Minihan, Joel Hoffman, Lillian Le, Shraddha Kashyap, Philippa Specker, Ola Ahmed, Jessica Cheung, Miriam Den and Emma Doolan to data collection in this study. We also grateful acknowledge the assistance of refugee casework and counselling services in Australia in study recruitment.