Psychosocial transitions: an emotional health comparison.
Utilizing the standardized Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90), emotional health scores of those experiencing psychosocial transitions were compared. Parents whose child died approximately 60 months earlier (N = 62) were compared to new immigrants living in absorption centers who arrived approximately 8 months earlier (N = 122). Even 5 years after the event, the emotional health of bereaved parents appeared to be lower than the new immigrant group. The differences appeared more pronounced for females and for the 45 + year old groupings (male and female). Depression seemed to be contrary. In most instances, no significant difference in depression scores were noted.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007557:Israel; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology