Postwar Winners and Losers in the Long Run: Determinants of War Related Stress Symptoms and Posttraumatic Growth

The study focuses on the long-term impact of war on adolescents ( N  = 821) and adults ( N  = 870) living in a war afflicted Israeli community a year after the war. Results indicate the following: (a) stress symptoms and posttraumatic growth (PTG) correlate negatively with each other. (b) Age was po...

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Published in:Community mental health journal 2010-02, Vol.46 (1), p.10-19
Main Authors: Kimhi, Shaul, Eshel, Yohanan, Zysberg, Leehu, Hantman, Shira
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adjustment
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Age
Age Factors
Anxiety disorders. Neuroses
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Chronic Disease
Combat Disorders - diagnosis
Combat Disorders - epidemiology
Combat Disorders - psychology
Community and Environmental Psychology
Coping
Cross-Sectional Studies
Economic Conditions
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Health Surveys
Humans
Israel
Medical sciences
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental health care
Older people
Original Paper
Personal growth
Personality. Affectivity
Post traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic growth
Postwar reconstruction
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk Factors
Schools
Social Development
Social Environment
Socioeconomic Factors
Stress
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - diagnosis
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
Students
Symptoms
Teenagers
Terrorism - psychology
Trauma
Traumatic life events
Traumatic stress
War
Warfare
Winners
Young Adult
Young adults
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Summary:The study focuses on the long-term impact of war on adolescents ( N  = 821) and adults ( N  = 870) living in a war afflicted Israeli community a year after the war. Results indicate the following: (a) stress symptoms and posttraumatic growth (PTG) correlate negatively with each other. (b) Age was positively associated with stress symptoms and negatively with PTG. (c) Economic condition predicted stress symptoms as well as PTG of adults better than exposure to traumatic events, whereas for school students the best predictor of stress symptoms was exposure to traumatic events while the best predictor of PTG was age of participants.
ISSN:0010-3853
1573-2789
DOI:10.1007/s10597-009-9183-x