Status Symmetry Effect: The Association of Exposure and PTS in Israel-Palestine and Northern Ireland

Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler; Dana R. Vashdi; Robert D. Lowe; Orla Muldoon; Stevan E. Hobfoll; Daphna Canetti

doi:10.1080/09546553.2019.1590342

Status Symmetry Effect: The Association of Exposure and PTS in Israel-Palestine and Northern Ireland

Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler, Dana R. Vashdi, Robert D. Lowe, Orla Muldoon, Stevan E. Hobfoll, Daphna Canetti

School of Political Sciences

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Abstract

A multi-national sample was used to investigate mechanisms that were hypothesized to moderate the relationship between exposure to political violence and symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS). We hypothesized that a) the phase of the conflict and b) the status asymmetry of the conflicting parties would moderate the relationship between exposure and PTS symptoms. We used original data from four groups: Israelis and Palestinians (n = 2,572), and Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland (n = 343). Looking at these two conflicts, we found that the positive relationship between exposure to violence and posttraumatic stress symptoms ceases to exist in a post-conflict setting (F(1, 2053) = 4.95, p < .05, η² = 0.002). Interestingly, we found that PTS symptoms were highest among minority group members in an ongoing conflict irrespective of exposure to political violence (F(1, 2053) = 120.74, p < .001,η² = 0.06). We provide explanations for these findings and discuss their psychological implications for victimized groups and the wider geopolitics of intergroup conflict.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	788-805
Number of pages	18
Journal	Terrorism and Political Violence
Volume	33
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2019.1590342
State	Published - 2019

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health [R01 MH073687]; Israel Science Foundation [487/08]; United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation [2009460]; Data collection in Northern Ireland was funded by a grant from the EU Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation.

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Keywords

Israel
Northern Ireland
Palestine
exposure to political violence
posttraumatic stress symptoms

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Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Sociology and Political Science
Safety Research
Political Science and International Relations

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