“…Including negative belief symptoms within the NACM cluster in DSM-5 may explain the significant node between it and depressive attribution that was found in our sample. Other studies have also found associations between the NACM cluster and depression, suicide ideation, and suicide risk (Brown, Contractor, & Benhamou, 2018;Hurlocker, Vidaurri, Cuccurullo, Maieritsch, & Franklin, 2018;Spitzer, Zuromski, Davis, Witte, & Weathers, 2018). Thus, whereas depression was related to three of the four PTSD clusters, the facilitation of PTSD, mainly through the NACM cluster, may have occurred because they both reflect the negative changes in the veterans' mood after their experiencing PMIEs in combat.…”