The limits of resilience: Distress following chronic political violence among Palestinians

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1400-1408

  Hobfoll, Stevan E ^a   Mancini, Anthony D ^b   Hall, Brian J ^a,c   Canetti, Daphna ^d   Bonanno, George A ^e  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Gaza; Mass casualty; Palestinian; Political violence; PTSD; Resilience; Resistance; War; West Bank

Indexed keywords

MENTAL HEALTH; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; WAR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALESTINE; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

GAZA; MOZAMBIQUE; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES; PALESTINE; WEST BANK;

EID: 79954674210     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.022     Document Type: Article

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