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Schlagwörter:
post-traumatic stress disorder; intergenerational; refugees; World War II
Zusammenfassung:
Intergenerational transmission of psychological trauma and the impact of
parental post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on offspring are
controversially discussed. We studied 50 offspring (36 women and 14 men,
mean age 42.1 years) of refugees who were severely traumatized as
children at the end of World War II. From these, 25 of the refugees
currently suffered from chronic PTSD, and 25 had no PTSD. Parental PTSD
status did not significantly influence mental health [as per the Symptom
Checklist (SCL)-90-R] or quality of life (assessed by the 36-item
Short-form Health Survey) in their children. In the entire sample,
frequency of talking with the mother about the flight correlated with
phobic anxiety (r = 0.67, p = 0.03). Interestingly, the stated burden of
having a parent with a history of flight significantly (p < 0.05)
correlated with almost all subscales of the SCL-90-R. These results in a
non-clinical sample do not support a specific role of parental PTSD in
intergenerational trauma transmission. Our other remarkable, but
preliminary, results need to be studied in larger samples using more
subtle interaction or schema analyses. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd.
