A Diathesis-Stress Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Ecological, Biological, and Residual Stress Pathways

By Victoria M. McKeever, Maureen E. Huff. 2003

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Positive Adjustment to Threatening Events: An Organismic Valuing Theory of Growth through Adversity (2005, background): “A variety of theories of PTSD have been put forward, and it is beyond the scope of the present article to provide a comprehensive examination of each (see Brewin & Holmes, 2003, and McKeever & Huff, 2003, for reviews of PTSD theories).”
Intrapersonal Resilience Moderates the Association Between Exposure-Severity and PTSD Symptoms Among Civilians Exposed to the 2014 Israel–Gaza Conflict (2015, background): “…to examine the diathesis–stress model, which addresses complex interactions between premorbid risk factors (diatheses) and situational stressors (McKeever & Huff, 2003) and suggests that exposure to potentially traumatic events interacts with individual differences to produce trauma-related…”
Vulnerability-Stress Models (2005, methodology): “Although Meehl’s (1962) original model of schizophrenia illustrates the idea of an interactive model with dichotomous diathesis, a more contemporary example can be seen in the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) theory proposed by McKeever and Huff (2003). They suggest two types of diatheses: One t”