Exposure to Terrorism, Stress-Related Mental Health Symptoms, and Defensive Coping Among Jews and Arabs in Israel

The authors conducted a large-scale study of terrorism in Israel via telephone surveys in September 2003 with 905 adult Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCIs). Structural equation path modeling indicated that exposure to terrorism was significantly related to greater loss and gain of psych...

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Published in:Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2006-04, Vol.74 (2), p.207-218
Main Authors: Hobfoll, Stevan E, Canetti-Nisim, Daphna, Johnson, Robert J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Arab Cultural Groups
Arab Israeli relations
Arabs
Biological and medical sciences
Clinical psychology
Coping
Coping Behavior
Defense Mechanisms
Depression
Depression (Psychology)
Female
Foreign Countries
Human
Humans
Israel
Israeli people
Jews
Major Depression
Male
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Mental Health
Mental stress
Palestinian people
Political Issues
Political Violence
Post traumatic stress disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Psychological Patterns
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Resilience (Psychological)
Stress
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - ethnology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - etiology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
Stress Variables
Structural Equation Models
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Symptoms
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Telephone Surveys
Terrorism
Terrorism - psychology
Violence
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Summary:The authors conducted a large-scale study of terrorism in Israel via telephone surveys in September 2003 with 905 adult Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCIs). Structural equation path modeling indicated that exposure to terrorism was significantly related to greater loss and gain of psychosocial resources and to greater posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depressive symptoms. Psychosocial resource loss and gain associated with terrorism were, in turn, significantly related to both greater PTSD and depressive symptoms. PCIs had significantly higher levels of PTSD and depressive symptoms than Jews. Further, PTSD symptoms in particular were related to greater authoritarian beliefs and ethnocentrism, suggesting how PTSD may lead to a self-protective style of defensive coping.
ISSN:0022-006X
1939-2117
DOI:10.1037/0022-006X.74.2.207