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Measuring the unmeasurable: Psychometric tools for Existential Concerns
Key psychometric instruments for measuring existential concerns: meaning in life, existential isolation, and existential anxiety.
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Evgeny Smirnov
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Trauma, existential isolation, and their associated clinical outcomes
Tatum Loso et al. (2025)
- Published
- Sep 1, 2025
- DOI
- 10.1521/jscp.2025.44.4.273
At a GlanceAI
Across two large samples, existential isolation links cumulative trauma exposure to distress and suicidal ideation beyond loneliness.
SummaryAI
Across two studies, the authors test whether cumulative trauma is associated with existential isolation—feeling alone in one’s experience of reality—and whether this helps explain later psychological distress. In both undergraduate and adult samples, more trauma exposure related to higher existential isolation even when controlling for loneliness. Existential isolation statistically mediated the association between trauma and depression, anxiety, stress, and suicidal ideation, and this held for both interpersonal and non-interpersonal traumas. The work positions existential isolation as a clinically relevant target for trauma-focused assessment and intervention, not just social disconnection.
Method SnapshotAI
Two cross-sectional survey studies using self-report measures and mediation analyses to test trauma–existential isolation–outcome pathways.
BackgroundAI
Basic understanding of trauma psychology, existential isolation/loneliness constructs, and correlational mediation models.
Samples are students and Amazon Turk...
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