This book an embedded mixed-methods project examining the interactions between networking
behavior post-traumatic stress disorder and the perception of quality in networking
experiences for women internationally. Findings from an internationally diverse group of women
who engage in networking behaviors show that across cultures women with higher total scores
on the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) tend to have higher scores on the
NetworkingBehavior Scale (NBS). Women internationally who meet the diagnostic ITQ cut-off for
PTSD tend to express a more negative than positive impact of social supports and relationships
overall negative impacts on their emotions and sense of self and changes associated with loss
and their needs in recovery all of which contribute to their perceptions of lower quality in
their networking experiences. Of note these changes in real networking experiences and in
perception of qualityin networking experiences make it more difficult internationally for women
to fully engage in and benefit from certain kinds of networking events and behaviors
