Table 1.
Number of different traumatic events experienced (N = 545).
Fig 1.
The number of traumatic stress events as a function of perceived social support.
This interaction predicts event-related intrusive rumination, entrapment, and PTSD symptoms. The slope indicates that as the number of traumatic events increases, event-related intrusive rumination, entrapment, and PTSD symptoms also increase. However, the slope is increasingly reduced as the level of perceived social support increases. Fig 1 caption followed the descriptions of the previous work [7].
Table 2.
Characteristics of the sample (N = 545).
Table 3.
Mean, standard deviation, and correlation between the main variables (N = 545).
PTSD = post-traumatic stress disorder.
Table 4.
Moderated mediation analyses (N = 545).
Fig 2.
The final moderated mediation model.
The indirect link associating traumatic events and PTSD symptoms via event-related intrusive rumination and entrapment is moderated by perceived social support. The dotted line indicates a non-significant pathway in the association between traumatic events and PTSD symptoms.