Emotional distress and satisfaction in life among Holocaust survivors--a community study of survivors and controls.
Results are reported from a large population study (of working people) comparing Holocaust survivors and a control group in regard to emotional distress, satisfaction in life and psychosomatic symptoms. It was found that, even 40 years after the traumatic experience, this group of survivors exhibited a slightly higher degree of emotional disorders than controls who were not under Nazi occupation during WWII. These long-term effects were usually more prominent in women than in men, and the relationship to age was minimal.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D003209:Concentration Camps; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D007585:Jews / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011330:Prisons; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology; D013534:Survival