title: The effect of prior stressful experience on coping with war trauma and captivity.
abstract: The study assessed the implications of childhood life events, Holocaust background, combat experiences, war captivity and negative post-captivity life events in the mental status of ex-POWs (164) and comparable controls (184), 18 years after the war. Findings confirm the association between stressful life events in the course of the life span and five outcomes: PTSD, intrusion and avoidance tendencies, psychiatric symptomatology, and impaired social functioning. Different life events have different effects. War captivity made the strongest contribution to all dependent variables.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health Medical Corps, IDF, Israel.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Solomon
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*