Exposure to terrorism, stress-related mental health symptoms, and defensive coping among Jews and Arabs in Israel

Stevan E. Hobfoll; Daphna Canetti-Nisim; Robert J. Johnson

doi:10.1037/0022-006X.74.2.207

Exposure to terrorism, stress-related mental health symptoms, and defensive coping among Jews and Arabs in Israel

Stevan E. Hobfoll, Daphna Canetti-Nisim, Robert J. Johnson

School of Political Sciences

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	207-218
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Volume	74
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-006X.74.2.207
State	Published - Apr 2006

Keywords

Depression
PTSD
Political violence
Resiliency
Terrorism

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Clinical Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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