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The role of personality in posttraumatic stress disorder, trait resilience, and quality of life in people exposed to the Kiss nightclub fire

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  • Vitor Crestani Calegaro
  • Pedro Henrique Canova Mosele
  • Bianca Lorenzi Negretto
  • Cleonice Zatti
  • Angelo Batista Miralha da Cunha
  • Lucia Helena Machado Freitas

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Objective: To evaluate the relationship among personality (according to Cloninger’s psychobiological model), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, trait resilience and quality of life (QoL) in people who were exposed to the Kiss nightclub fire. Methods: 188 participants were assessed with the Posttraumatic Checklist–civilian version (PCL-C), the Resilience Scale (RS), the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), the World Health Organization Quality of Life–Bref (WHOQOL-Bref), and the WHOQOL-100 Spirituality, religiousness, and personal beliefs (WHOQOL-100-SRPB). Data were analyzed in a dimensional approach, with correlation analysis, multiple linear regression and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), with PCL-C, RS, and WHOQOL-Bref dimensions as dependent variables. Results: Multiple linear regression showed that PTSD symptoms were predicted by harm avoidance (β = .34, p

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  • Vitor Crestani Calegaro & Pedro Henrique Canova Mosele & Bianca Lorenzi Negretto & Cleonice Zatti & Angelo Batista Miralha da Cunha & Lucia Helena Machado Freitas, 2019. "The role of personality in posttraumatic stress disorder, trait resilience, and quality of life in people exposed to the Kiss nightclub fire," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(7), pages 1-17, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0220472
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220472
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    1. Domenico Giacco & Aleksandra Matanov & Stefan Priebe, 2013. "Symptoms and Subjective Quality of Life in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Longitudinal Study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(4), pages 1-7, April.
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    1. Stock, Eduardo Velasco & da Silva, Roberto, 2023. "Lattice gas model to describe a nightclub dynamics," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).

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