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Guetta 2024 findings on perceived stress and traumatic events in Misophonia

In a 2024 survey study, Guetta et al. aimed to examine the relationships among misophonia, perceived stress, traumatic life events, and PTSD symptoms in a community sample of adults. They assessed 143 U.S. adults with self-identified misophonia using structured clinical interviews and validated self-report measures of stress, trauma exposure, and misophonia severity. They found that perceived stress and hyperarousal symptoms predicted misophonia severity, whereas PTSD diagnosis and lifetime traumatic events did not. From this they concluded that transdiagnostic stress processes, rather than traumatic stress itself, are more strongly related to misophonia severity. from this the authors suggest future work Test transdiagnostic stress-reduction interventions in misophonia. (Guetta et al., 2024).