title: Posttraumatic stress symptoms and marital adjustment among Israeli combat veterans: The role of loneliness and attachment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  War trauma may foster ramifications for marital relationships. Veterans may feel that no one can understand them and thus impact their relationships. The current study aims to shed light on the role that posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), loneliness, and attachment orientations may play in marital adjustment among combat veterans.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 504 veterans who served in the Lebanon War in 1982.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analysis revealed that higher PTSS levels were related to lower marital adjustment and that the indirect path of this relation through loneliness was significant. Furthermore, attachment orientations moderated the direct link between PTSS and marital adjustment, but failed to moderate the indirect effect through loneliness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A sense of isolation should be addressed in therapy, as well as the interpersonal expectations of the veteran. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: I-Core Research Center for Mass Trauma, The Bob Shappell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University.
authors.forename: Liat
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Itzhaky
authors.affiliation: I-Core Research Center for Mass Trauma, The Bob Shappell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University.
authors.forename: Jacob Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.affiliation: I-Core Research Center for Mass Trauma, The Bob Shappell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University.
authors.forename: Yafit
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.affiliation: I-Core Research Center for Mass Trauma, The Bob Shappell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University.
authors.forename: Zahava
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Solomon
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003130:Combat Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008132:Loneliness; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D014728:Veterans / Q000523:psychology*; D000067453:War Exposure