The effect of prior stressful experience on coping with war trauma and captivity
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- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 25 (6) , 1289-1294
Abstract
Synopsis: The study assessed the implications of childhood life events, Holocaust background, combat experiences, war captivity and negative post-captivity life events in the mental status of ex-POWs (164) and comparable controls (184), 18 years after the war. Findings confirm the association between stressful life events in the course of the life span and five outcomes: PTSD, intrusion and avoidance tendencies, psychiatric symptomatology, and impaired social functioning. Different life events have different effects. War captivity made the strongest contribution to all dependent variables.Keywords
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