Abstract

Veterans deployed during the Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991 report significantly more nonspecific symptoms and poorer health than their nondeployed peers. This amalgamation of chronic, multisymptom health complaints is commonly referred to as Gulf War Illness. There are two major theoretical models within the medical/health field that may help explain these symptoms: 1) the traditional biomedical model, and 2) the more recently evolved (late 1970’s) biopsychosocial model. Theorists have proposed two major causal pathways in studying the etiology of health complaints of Gulf War veterans, the physical pathway and the psychosocial pathway. In the present study, the biopsychosocial model was employed to investigate the indirect and direct relationships among warfare exposures, mistrust in the military establishment, depression, and Gulf War Illness symptomatology. Structural equation modeling was used to test mediational and moderating models as compared to the full model.

LLU Discipline

Psychology

Department

Psychology

School

School of Science and Technology

First Advisor

Kendal Boyd

Second Advisor

John Flora-Tostado

Third Advisor

Louis Jenkins

Fourth Advisor

Jason Owen

Fifth Advisor

David Vermeersch

Degree Name

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Degree Level

Psych.D.

Year Degree Awarded

2006

Date (Title Page)

6-2006

Language

English

Library of Congress/MESH Subject Headings

Military Medicine; Combat Disorders; Veterans -- psychology; Models, Structural.

Type

Dissertation

Page Count

ix; 69

Digital Format

PDF

Digital Publisher

Loma Linda University Libraries

Usage Rights

This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Collection

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collection Website

http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/

Repository

Loma Linda University. Del E. Webb Memorial Library. University Archives

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