Sense of danger and family support as mediators of adolescents' distress and recovery in the aftermath of war

Shaul Kimhi; Yohanan Eshel; Leehu Zysberg; Shira Hantman

doi:10.1080/15325024.2010.491769

Sense of danger and family support as mediators of adolescents' distress and recovery in the aftermath of war

Shaul Kimhi, Yohanan Eshel, Leehu Zysberg, Shira Hantman

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

Posttraumatic stress and recovery were investigated among 820 adolescents living on the Israeli-Lebanese border 1 year after the Second Lebanon War of 2006. It was hypothesized that most adolescents would not report serious symptoms, whereas a minority would complain about high-level prolonged postwar symptoms. Another minority would indicate posttraumatic recovery. It was also hypothesized that associations of age, gender, and exposure to war distress with postwar stress symptoms as well as posttraumatic recovery would be mediated by family support and subjective sense of danger. Results generally supported these contentions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	351-369
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Loss and Trauma
Volume	15
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2010.491769
State	Published - 2010

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Funding Information:
Received 30 October 2009; accepted 5 December 2009. This study was supported by a grant from the UJA Federation of New York. Address correspondence to Shaul Kimhi, Psychology Department, Tel Hai Academic College, 12210 Upper Galilee, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]

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Social Psychology
Psychiatric Mental Health
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Psychiatry and Mental health

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