Table 1.
Overview of the included papers.
| Reference | Topic | Why Bayes |
|---|---|---|
| Allen et al. (2002) | Pathological dissociative taxon membership, absorption, and reported childhood trauma | Bayes probability |
| DePrince (2005) | Social cognition and revictimization risk | Bayes probability |
| Cuperus et al. (2016)a | Virtual reality paradigm and real-life trauma | Support instead of p values + informative hypothesis testing |
| De Roos et al. (2011) | CBT and EMDR | To deal with missing data |
| Fedina (2015) | Sex trafficking in the USA | Including experts to deal with missing data |
| Depaoli et al. (2015)b | Theory-driven solution of PTSD trajectories | Small samples |
| Goodman et al. (2003) | Pathological dissociation and personality diagnosis, and self-directed injury | Bayes probability |
| Hagenaars, Holmes, Klaassen, and Elzinga (2017)a | Tetris after PTSD | Support instead of p values + informative hypothesis testing |
| Krypotos et al. (2017)a | Bayesian analysis in threat conditioning research | Support instead of p values + informative hypothesis testing |
| Kuijer, Marshall, and Bishop (2014) | Relationship between pretrauma variables, such as neuroticism, optimism, self-control, pretrauma depression, and post-earthquake adjustment (PTSD symptoms) | Technical – non-normality |
| Küffer et al. (2016)a | Childhood adversity, dysfunctional rearing behavior, psychological health offspring | Small samples |
| Littel et al. (2017)a | EMDR | Support instead of p values + informative hypothesis testing |
| Michélsen, Therup-Svedenlöf, Backheden, and Schulman (2017) | Post-traumatic growth and depreciation | Not mentioned |
| Mohr and Rosén (2017) | Protective factors on post-traumatic growth | To deal with missing data |
| Mueller-Pfeiffer et al. (2010) | Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire (SDQ-20) | Not mentioned |
| Neylan et al. (2014) | Biomarkers for combat-related PTSD | To model causal relations |
| Van De Schoot (2015)b | Latent growth mixture models to estimate PTSD trajectories | Small samples |
| Van De Schoot et al. (2015) | PTSD after burn event | To deal with small samples |
| Van Schie et al. (2016)a | Modification of episodic memories by novel learning | Support instead of p values + informative hypothesis testing |
| Van Schie et al. (2016) | EMDR | Support instead of p values + informative hypothesis testing |
| Van Veen et al. (2016) | EMDR | Support instead of p values + informative hypothesis testing |
| Wahlström et al. (2013) | Reporting psychological symptoms | Technical reason – dichotomous mediator |
| Yalch (2016) | Applicability of Bayesian statistics in psychological trauma research | Introduction to Bayes |
| Yalch et al. (2016) | Effects of prenatal and post-birth intimate partner violence | Technical – non-normality |
| Yalch and Levendosky (2014) | Betrayal trauma and dimensions of borderline personality organization | Technical – non-normality |
| Yalch et al. (2017) | Survivors of intimate partner violence | Technical – non-normality |
aPart of the special issue.
bPart of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) global meetings program.
CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy; EMDR, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing; PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.