title: Rescue volunteers' posttraumatic symptoms, distress, and fear of death: attachment insecurity moderates.
abstract: This study addresses the contribution of attachment orientations of ultra-orthodox volunteer rescuers involved in terror events to their posttraumatic symptoms, distress, and fear of death. The authors compared 53 ultra-orthodox rescuers operating in a terror-stricken area in Israel to 36 ultra-orthodox men unexposed to terror. Rescuers displayed lower distress than controls but were not significantly different in fear of death or posttraumatic symptoms. Attachment anxiety was found to be a risk factor by contributing uniquely to posttraumatic symptoms, distress, and fear of death, and as a debilitating factor among rescuers.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Bar-Ilan University , Elad , Israel.
authors.forename: Ety
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Berant
authors.forename: Noam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pizem
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003643:Death; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D007599:Judaism / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D018635:Rescue Work; D012307:Risk Factors; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology*; D014838:Volunteers / Q000523:psychology*