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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Trauma. 2014 Sep;6(5):473–481. doi: 10.1037/a0035239

Table 4.

Predicting PTSD symptoms, Controlling for Daily Narrative

Variable PTSD Total (PDS) a,c Re-experiencing (PDS) b,d
B SE B β B SE B β
Cognitive Mechanism Words and Pronouns a,b
 Daily Cognitive Mech 1.32 1.09 .21 .13 .30 .08
 Daily Pronouns .13 .64 .04 .11 .18 .12
 Trauma Distress (SUDs) .08 .07 .20 .01 .02 .03
 Trauma Cognitive Mech −1.03 .94 −.21 −.43 .23 −.34
 Trauma Pronouns −.17 .81 −.04 −.44 .20 −.38
Positive and Negative Emotion Words c,d
 Daily Neg. emotion 6.04 3.20 .34 1.59 .86 .34
 Daily Pos. emotion −1.16 1.46 −.14 −.53 .39 −.24
 Trauma Distress (SUDs) .11 .07 .26 .01 .02 .10
 Trauma Neg. emotion −3.93 2.09 −.29 −1.53 .50 −.42*
 Trauma Pos. emotion −3.28 1.35 −.36* −1.01 .32 −.42*
 Daily Neg. emotion 6.04 3.20 .34 1.59 .86 .34

Note.

*

p < .05;

a

Cognitive mechanism and pronoun words predicting PTSD total, R2 = .10 for Step 1, F (3, 34) = 1.09, ns; Δ R2 = .04 for Step 2, F (5, 34) = 0.89, ns.

b

Cognitive mechanism and pronoun words predicting PTSD reexperiencing, R2 = .03 for Step 1, F (3, 34) = .27, ns; Δ R2 = .22 for Step 2, F (5, 34) = 1.89, ns.

c

Positive and negative emotion words predicting PTSD total, R2 = .15 for Step 1, F (3, 34) = 1.78, ns; Δ R2 = .23 for Step 2, F (5, 34) = 3.43, p < .05.

d

Positive and negative emotion words predicting PTSD total, PTSD reexperiencing, R2 = .12 for Step 1, F (3, 34) = 1.34, ns; Δ R2 = .37 for Step 2, F (5, 34) = 5.49, p < .01.