Traumatic Exposure
Dimension 302 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Traumatic Exposure measures the extent to which an expression reflects direct or indirect encounter with death, severe injury, violence, or other horrifying events. It encompasses awareness of mortality, learning about traumatic loss, and witnessing graphic or lethal harm in real life.
evidence final name · Disaster Trauma
Minimal Traumatic Exposure
Expressions activating this band show little to no clear traumatic-event content, with only diffuse references to danger, intensity, or emotionally charged topics. The material is largely unrelated to death, violence, or severe harm as a lived event.
Low Traumatic Exposure
Expressions activating this band reflect awareness of death or frightening events, including thinking about dying, causing serious harm, or reporting that a close other died. The traumatic content is present mainly as knowledge, memory, or broad acknowledgment rather than vivid sensory witnessing.
Moderate Traumatic Exposure
Expressions activating this band reflect serious engagement with traumatic loss or catastrophe affecting close others, such as murder, suicide, severe accidents, or human suffering. The events are consequential and upsetting, but are often learned about or experienced through close personal connection rather than direct observation.
High Traumatic Exposure
Expressions activating this band reflect direct witnessing of violent injury, sudden death, assault, shootings, bombings, or similarly horrifying events. The exposure is immediate and concrete, often involving being physically present while severe harm unfolds.
Extreme Traumatic Exposure
Expressions activating this band reflect direct contact with graphic, gruesome, or lethal scenes involving corpses, mutilation, gore, or visibly severe injury. The exposure is intensely sensory and disturbing, centered on seeing the aftermath or occurrence of brutal physical harm.
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Minimal Disaster Trauma: Disaster trauma is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse disaster trauma.
Emerging Disaster Trauma: Disaster trauma is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where disaster trauma was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band likely reflect disaster trauma at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.
Elevated Disaster Trauma: Disaster trauma is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where disaster trauma was characterized by the clinical form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect disaster trauma at this level of intensity.
Severe Disaster Trauma: Disaster trauma is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where disaster trauma was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band likely reflect disaster trauma at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.