2017 Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 33-41
The purpose of this study was to validate a model where cognitive fusion which refers to the tendency for verbal knowledge to dominate over other sources of stimulus control mediates negative appraisal for trauma and post-traumatic stress symptoms, and adversely affects post-traumatic stress symptoms. We distributed questionnaires measuring trauma experience, cognitive fusion (CFQ), cognitive appraisal for trauma (CARS) and post-traumatic stress symptoms (NAP), post-traumatic stress symptoms (IES-R) to 557 college students. As a result of conducting covariance structure analysis for 281 participants that had experienced trauma, adequate values of fitness for the assumed model were obtained. In other words, cognitive fusion has a positive effect on negative appraisal of trauma and post-traumatic stress symptoms, and this negative appraisal has been shown to have a positive effect on post-traumatic stress symptoms. In the future, verification of the effectiveness of intervention techniques using cognitive fusion and verification of the improvement process are expected.
