TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychological Well-Being and ratings of psychiatric symptoms in bereaved israeli adolescents
T2 - Differential effect of war versus accident-related bereavement
AU - Bachar, Eytan
AU - Canetti, Laura
AU - Bonne, Omer
AU - Denour, Atara Kaplan
AU - Shalev, Arieh Y.
PY - 1997/6
Y1 - 1997/6
N2 - Eight hundred seventy-one Israeli adolescents, 375 boys and 496 girls, mean age 16.7 ± 1, participated in this study. Twenty-three of them lost relatives in war and 19 in road accidents. All participants were administered the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), the General Well-Being Scale (GWB), the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) and the Perceived Social Support- Family/Friend (PSS-Fa and PSS-Fr) measures. War-bereaved adolescents showed significantly higher scores in psychological well-being (GWB) and significantly lower scores in reported psychiatric symptoms (BSI) than accident-bereaved adolescents. War-bereaved adolescents also had significantly better BSI and GWB scores than the general nonbereaved adolescent population. These results persisted after controlling for family socio-economic status, gender, and the degrees of closeness of the deceased relative. War-bereaved adolescents did not differ either from accident- bereaved adolescents or from the nonbereaved general adolescent population in social and family support systems (PSS-Fr, PSS-Fa) and did not experience different basic parental attitudes (PBI). Results are discussed in terms of the different meanings ascribed to death in battle versus death in a road accident.
AB - Eight hundred seventy-one Israeli adolescents, 375 boys and 496 girls, mean age 16.7 ± 1, participated in this study. Twenty-three of them lost relatives in war and 19 in road accidents. All participants were administered the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), the General Well-Being Scale (GWB), the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) and the Perceived Social Support- Family/Friend (PSS-Fa and PSS-Fr) measures. War-bereaved adolescents showed significantly higher scores in psychological well-being (GWB) and significantly lower scores in reported psychiatric symptoms (BSI) than accident-bereaved adolescents. War-bereaved adolescents also had significantly better BSI and GWB scores than the general nonbereaved adolescent population. These results persisted after controlling for family socio-economic status, gender, and the degrees of closeness of the deceased relative. War-bereaved adolescents did not differ either from accident- bereaved adolescents or from the nonbereaved general adolescent population in social and family support systems (PSS-Fr, PSS-Fa) and did not experience different basic parental attitudes (PBI). Results are discussed in terms of the different meanings ascribed to death in battle versus death in a road accident.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005053-199706000-00007
DO - 10.1097/00005053-199706000-00007
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C2 - 9205427
AN - SCOPUS:0030837335
SN - 0022-3018
VL - 185
SP - 402
EP - 406
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
IS - 6
ER -
