Initial Psychometric Evaluation of the Moral Injury Questionnaire-Military Version

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作者
Currier, Joseph M. [1 ,2 ]
Holland, Jason M. [3 ]
Drescher, Kent [4 ]
Foy, David [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ S Alabama, Dept Psychol, Mobile, AL 36608 USA
[2] Fuller Theol Seminary, Grad Sch Psychol, Pasadena, CA 91101 USA
[3] Univ Nevada, Dept Psychol, Las Vegas, NV 89154 USA
[4] VA Palo Alto Healthcare Syst, Natl Ctr PTSD, Menlo Pk, CA USA
[5] Pepperdine Univ, Grad Sch Psychol, Encino, CA USA
关键词
military Veterans; trauma; moral injury; MENTAL-HEALTH PROBLEMS; POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER; IRAQ; SOLDIERS; COMBAT; INDICATORS; DEPLOYMENT; SYMPTOMS; VIETNAM; TRAUMA;
D O I
10.1002/cpp.1866
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
Moral injury is an emerging construct related to negative consequences associated with war-zone stressors that transgress military veterans' deeply held values/beliefs. Given the newness of the construct, there is a need for instrumentation that might assess morally injurious experiences (MIEs) in this population. Drawing on a community sample of 131 Iraq and/or Afghanistan Veterans and clinical sample of 82 returning Veterans, we conducted an initial psychometric evaluation of the newly developed Moral Injury QuestionnaireMilitary version (MIQ-M)a 20-item self-report measure for assessing MIEs. Possibly due to low rates of reporting, an item assessing sexual trauma did not yield favourable psychometric properties and was excluded from analyses. Veterans in the clinical sample endorsed significantly higher scores across MIQ-M items. Factor analytic results for the final 19 items supported a unidimensional structure, and convergent validity analyses revealed that higher scores (indicative of more MIEs) were correlated with greater general combat exposure, impairments in work/social functioning, posttraumatic stress and depression in the community sample. In addition, when controlling for demographics, deployment-related factors and exposure to life threat stressors associated with combat, tests of incremental validity indicated that MIQ-M scores were also uniquely linked with suicide risk and other mental health outcomes. These findings provide preliminary evidence for the validity of the MIQ-M and support the applicability of this measure for further research and clinical work with Veterans. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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