Post-traumatic Recovery to Distress Symptoms Ratio Mediates Relations of Resilience Fostering Resources and Their Predictors

Yohanan Eshel, Shaul Kimhi, Marina Goroshit

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Abstract

A large-scale study investigated the direct and indirect effects of demographic predictors and traumatic experiences on resilience fostering resources following a war. The sample consisted of 829 Israeli adults, living in a border town, 1 year after experiencing the 2006 war with Lebanon. Resilience was assessed by measures of individual and public resilience and low sense of danger. Results show that as hypothesized the proportion of post-traumatic recovery to post-war distress symptoms predicts these indices of resilience and partly mediates the direct links between these indices and demographic predictors (age, gender and economic condition) and exposure to war. Research of resilience has proposed several prototypical trajectories that characterize responses to potentially traumatic events. Our discussion suggests that these trajectories and their changes over time can be accounted for by the balance of post-war recovery to symptoms level.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)216-223
Number of pages8
JournalStress and Health
Volume32
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2016

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Keywords

  • age
  • coping
  • exposure to stress
  • gender
  • individual and public resilience
  • post-traumatic recovery to distress symptoms ratio

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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