Clinical Psychological Research into the Relation between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) /Critical Incident Stress (CIS) and Emotional Labor

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380977
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University
• Principal Investigator: Mochihara Takako 鹿児島純心女子大学, 国際人間学部, 教授 (70352474)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: PTSD（心的外傷後ストレス障害） / CIS（惨事ストレス） / 惨事 / 感情労働 / PTG（外傷後成長） / レジリエンス / ポーランドの被害者支援 / オーストリアの被害者支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It has been found that the children suffering PTSD often have mothers who have been suffering long-term depression and fathers who exhibit aggression towards criminals.　It has been found that when adults are shown pictures of injured people in court, black and white images have far less impact than do color images. In addition, adults are able to observe black and white images in much more detail than they can color ones.　　The results of a questionnaire to 87 female sex crime investigators showed that investigators who have seen dreadfully mutilated bodies have a significantly higher relation to “emotional labor.”
Research and information gathering in Poland and Austria has clearly shown that concentration camp survivors’ recovery from trauma has something to do with their resilience which was promoted by ‘a love and respect for humanity’ and ‘a loving and caring childhood’.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学