トラウマティックなライフイベントについての出来事中心性尺度日本語版の作成

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In the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research community, there is an ongoing controversy between those who argue the basic mechanisms that view trauma encoding and retrieval as an extension of emotionally-valenced ordinary memory, and those who posit special mechanisms of traumatic memory different from ordinary memory. In particular, there is a growing body of research on whether traumatic events have highly impact and therefore easily integrate into the self (basic mechanisms) or whether they never integrate into the self (special mechanisms). In this study, I developed the Japanese version of the Centrality of Event Scale (CES), which measures the centrality of an event as an index of the extent to which the event is integrated into the self. I hope cross-cultural studies use the CES and conduct further research to address the mechanisms of trauma encoding, retrieval, and the self.