- Title
- Postmission Altruistic Identity Disruption Questionnaire (PostAID/Q): identifying humanitarian-related distress during the reintegration period following international humanitarian aid work
- Creator
- McCormack, Lynne; Orenstein, Andrew; Joseph, Stephen
- Relation
- Traumatology Vol. 22, Issue 1, p. 1-8
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/trm0000053
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Psychological care of humanitarian personnel exposed to high-risk environments is not standardized across the sector. Particularly, returnees experiencing reintegration distress specific to prior aid deployment is randomly addressed. The Postmission Altruistic Identity Disruption Questionnaire (PostAID/Q), an 18-item self-report screening tool, attempts to standardize assessment of reintegration/specific distress in returnees from humanitarian deployment. When individuals high in altruistic identity (AI) perceive invalidation or lack of support from organization, family, or society after a difficult deployment, they may experience altruistic identity disruption (AID) manifest by interrelated feelings of isolation, doubt, and self-blame. Paradoxically, AID distress can precipitate attempts to redeploy prematurely leaving any prior adverse/traumatic responses unresolved. This study compared the discriminant validity of PostAID/Q with standardized measures of distress and social support (the Revised Impact of Event Scale, General Health Questionnaire-12, and Social Provisions Survey). The construct demonstrated significant predictive value, high internal consistency, and significant variance over and above the other constructs. Promisingly, PostAID/Q shows utility in predicting reintegration/specific distress postmission.
- Subject
- Postmission Altruistic Identity Disruption Questionnaire; altruistic identity/altruistic identity disruption; standardized assessment; humanitarian aid personnel; postmission reintegration
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1322038
- Identifier
- uon:24498
- Identifier
- ISSN:1085-9373
- Rights
- This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.
- Language
- eng
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