The impact of COVID-19 traumatic stressors on mental health: Is COVID-19 a new trauma type

IA Kira, HAM Shuwiekh, JS Ashby, SA Elwakeel… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
COVID-19 is a new type of trauma that has never been conceptually or empirically analyzed
in our discipline. This study aimed to investigate the impact of COVID-19 as traumatic stress …

Measuring COVID-19 as traumatic stress: Initial psychometrics and validation

IA Kira, HAM Shuwiekh, KG Rice, JS Ashby… - Journal of Loss and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The goal was to develop and validate a measure for COVID-19 as traumatic stress. The
scale consisted of three dimensions:“threat/fear of infection and death,”“economic hardship,” …

The effects of COVID-19 and collective identity trauma (intersectional discrimination) on social status and well-being.

IA Kira, HAM Shuwiekh, A Alhuwailah, JS Ashby… - Traumatology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
To understand how the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting minorities'
victims of discrimination, we examined its impact as traumatic stress, coupled with …

Taxonomy of stressors and traumas: An update of the development-based trauma framework (DBTF): A life-course perspective on stress and trauma.

IA Kira - Traumatology, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
COVID-19 challenged the current paradigms of traumatic stress. Although there are
diagnostic taxonomies of mental disorders such as Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …

Understanding the psychological impact of oppression using the trauma symptoms of discrimination scale

M Williams, M Osman, C Hyon - Chronic Stress, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Oppression refers to systemic discrimination where the injustice targets or disproportionately
impacts specific groups of people. The Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale (TSDS) is …

The relationship of COVID‐19 traumatic stress, cumulative trauma, and race to posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

JS Ashby, KG Rice, IA Kira… - Journal of Community …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to test if coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) traumatic
stress predicts posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after cumulative trauma and …

The differential mental health impact of COVID-19 in Arab countries

HAM Shuwiekh, IA Kira, MSF Sous, JS Ashby… - Current …, 2020 - Springer
COVID-19 pandemic's mental health impact on Arab countries is under-researched. The
goal of this investigation was to study the differential impact of COVID-19 on the mental …

Clusters of trauma types as measured by the Life Events Checklist for DSM–5.

AA Contractor, NH Weiss… - International journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Experiences of potentially traumatic events (PTE), commonly assessed with the Life Events
Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (LEC-5) …

The compelling dynamics of “will to exist, live, and survive” on effecting posttraumatic growth upon exposure to adversities: Is it mediated, in part, by emotional …

IA Kira, N Arıcı Özcan, H Shuwiekh, J Kucharska… - Traumatology, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
The goal of the current study is to empirically examine the role of a person's will to exist, live,
and survive (WTELS) in growth upon exposure to cumulative stressors and traumas (CST) …

[HTML][HTML] The development-based taxonomy of stressors and traumas: An initial empirical validation

I Kira - Psychology, 2021 - scirp.org
The development-based trauma framework (DBTF) proposed a comprehensive taxonomy of
stressors and traumas based on the salience of existence and identity development. The …