title: [Coping skills and social support in German long-time survivors of rape in the end of World War II].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the study was to document perceived social support in a sample of German war-raped women in World War II. Furthermore the impact of this potential resource on today's posttraumatic symptoms should be pointed out.
  
  
  METHODS
  27 women (M = 80.3 years, SD = 3.1 years) answered each a semi-structured interview and several questionnaires.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Perceived social support shows clearly lower values than in the comparative samples. The measured degree of the variable in the present sample bears negative relationship to the actual posttraumatic symptoms of the women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In World War II sexually traumatized women could profit only few from the examined resource. The found negative relationship between perceived social support and posttraumatic symptoms shows additionally the potentially long-lasting impact of these form of coping on psychological health in trauma victims.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie, Universität Leipzig, Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 55, Leipzig. svenja.eichhorn@medizin.unileipzig.de
authors.forename: Svenja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eichhorn
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Klauer
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grundke
authors.forename: Harald J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Freyberger
authors.forename: Elmar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brähler
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kuwert
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D011902:Rape / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D014858:War Crimes / Q000523:psychology*; D047789:World War II