Do holocaust survivors show increased vulnerability or resilience to post-holocaust cumulative adversity?

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-375

  Shrira, Amit ^a,c   Palgi, Yuval ^a   Ben Ezra, Menachem ^b   Shmotkin, Dov ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Ramat Aviv   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 77954604499     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20524     Document Type: Article

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