- Title
- The relationship between attribution style, rural vs urban status and traumatic stress severity in Kiambu and Nyeri counties, Kenya
- Creator
- Ndungu, Jane Wagithi
- Subject
- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Kenya
- Subject
- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- Interviews -- Kenya Rural conditions -- Psychological aspects -- Kenya Rural mental health services -- Kenya Community psychology -- Kenya
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/32793
- Identifier
- vital:32363
- Description
- Traumatic exposure and posttraumatic stress in Kenya is a common experience. Despite this prevalence, an investigation of the dynamic influence of variables (such as cultural differences) on posttraumatic stress has received little attention in the country. This means that a relatively narrow understanding of traumatic stress exists in the Kenyan context. This study therefore investigated the relationship between attribution style, rural vs. urban status and posttraumatic stress severity. The exploration and description of these relationships contributed to creating a more nuanced understanding of traumatic stress. Such a nuanced understanding would be useful to a variety of fields of practice. The study utilised a sample from a rural and urban area of Kenya. A purposive convenience sample of 178 rural and 176 urban individuals was used. The study employed a biographical questionnaire and 2 quantitative measures, namely, the Attribution Style Questionnaire (ASQ) and the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5). Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data. Results indicated that posttraumatic stress severity in the urban area was significantly higher than in the rural area. The urban sample was significantly more likely to attribute negative events to internal (rather than external) and specific (rather than global) causes than the rural sample. A regression analysis showed that a negative internal attribution style and educational level had a significant relationship with posttraumatic stress severity.
- Format
- xv, 124 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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