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Traumatic stress in Japanese broadcast journalists

  1. Miho Hatanaka1,*,
  2. Yutaka Matsui2,
  3. Kiyoshi Ando3,
  4. Kako Inoue4,
  5. Yoshiharu Fukuoka5,
  6. Eiko Koshiro6,
  7. Hidenori Itamura7

Article first published online: 26 JAN 2010

DOI: 10.1002/jts.20496

Issue

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Special Issue: Psychological Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Volume 23, Issue 1, pages 173–177, February 2010

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Hatanaka, M., Matsui, Y., Ando, K., Inoue, K., Fukuoka, Y., Koshiro, E. and Itamura, H. (2010), Traumatic stress in Japanese broadcast journalists. J. Traum. Stress, 23: 173–177. doi: 10.1002/jts.20496

Author Information

  1. 1

    Faculty of Human Studies, Meijo University, Japan

  2. 2

    Institute of Psychology, University of Tsukuba, Japan

  3. 3

    Faculty of Sociology, Toyo University, Japan

  4. 4

    Department of Psychology, Yokohama National University, Japan

  5. 5

    Faculty of Health and Welfare Services Administration, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Japan

  6. 6

    Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of the Sacred Heart, Japan

  7. 7

    Graduate School of Sociology, Kansai University, Japan

*Meijo University, 1-501 Shiogamaguchi, Tenpaku-ku, Nagoya 468-8502, Japan

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 18 FEB 2010
  2. Article first published online: 26 JAN 2010

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Abstract

Job-related traumatic stress experienced by broadcast journalists in Japan was investigated. A questionnaire inquiring about the most traumatic event they faced when covering the news and the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) were administered to 270 journalist participants working for Japanese news companies. Of these, 6% met the IES-R criterion for potential posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Moreover, posttraumatic stress reactions at the time of the survey were strongly related to symptoms of stress experienced during the stressful assignment. The early assessment of stress symptoms in journalists that experience traumatic news coverage is important for preventing the development of PTSD symptoms.

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