TY - JOUR
T1 - From Front Line to Home Front
T2 - A Study of Secondary Traumatization
AU - SOLOMON, ZAHAVA
AU - WAYSMAN, MARK
AU - LEVY, GABY
AU - FRIED, BATIA
AU - MIKULINCER, MARIO
AU - BENBENISHTY, RAMI
AU - FLORIAN, VICTOR
AU - BLEICH, AVI
PY - 1992/9
Y1 - 1992/9
N2 - While the long‐term effects of combat trauma on veterans have been studied extensively, its impact on veterans' wives has yet to be investigated. This study examined the implications of combat‐induced psychopathology — wartime combat stress reaction (CSR) and current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — in a sample of 205 wives of Israeli combat veterans of the 1982 Lebanon war. Results show that both CSR and PTSD were associated with increased psychiatric symptoms in the wives. In addition, current PTSD was particularly found to contribute to impaired social relations among veterans' wives in a broad range of contexts, from inner feelings of loneliness, through impaired marital and family relations, and extending to the wider social network. Implications of these findings for treatment and further research are discussed.
AB - While the long‐term effects of combat trauma on veterans have been studied extensively, its impact on veterans' wives has yet to be investigated. This study examined the implications of combat‐induced psychopathology — wartime combat stress reaction (CSR) and current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — in a sample of 205 wives of Israeli combat veterans of the 1982 Lebanon war. Results show that both CSR and PTSD were associated with increased psychiatric symptoms in the wives. In addition, current PTSD was particularly found to contribute to impaired social relations among veterans' wives in a broad range of contexts, from inner feelings of loneliness, through impaired marital and family relations, and extending to the wider social network. Implications of these findings for treatment and further research are discussed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0026922130&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1992.00289.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1992.00289.x
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C2 - 1451774
AN - SCOPUS:0026922130
SN - 0014-7370
VL - 31
SP - 289
EP - 302
JO - Family Process
JF - Family Process
IS - 3
ER -