title: Post-traumatic Recovery to Distress Symptoms Ratio Mediates Relations of Resilience Fostering Resources and Their Predictors.
abstract: A large-scale study investigated the direct and indirect effects of demographic predictors and traumatic experiences on resilience fostering resources following a war. The sample consisted of 829 Israeli adults, living in a border town, 1 year after experiencing the 2006 war with Lebanon. Resilience was assessed by measures of individual and public resilience and low sense of danger. Results show that as hypothesized the proportion of post-traumatic recovery to post-war distress symptoms predicts these indices of resilience and partly mediates the direct links between these indices and demographic predictors (age, gender and economic condition) and exposure to war. Research of resilience has proposed several prototypical trajectories that characterize responses to potentially traumatic events. Our discussion suggests that these trajectories and their changes over time can be accounted for by the balance of post-war recovery to symptoms level. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel.|Department of Psychology, Tel Hai College, Israel.
authors: Yohanan
authors: Y
authors: Eshel
authors: Department of Psychology, Tel Hai College, Israel.
authors: Shaul
authors: S
authors: Kimhi
authors: Department of Education, Tel Hai College, Israel.|LCSR, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russia.
authors: Marina
authors: M
authors: Goroshit
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000067073:Psychological Trauma / Q000523:psychology*; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D000067453:War Exposure; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: age; coping; exposure to stress; gender; individual and public resilience; post-traumatic recovery to distress symptoms ratio