Transgenerational effects of trauma in midlife: Evidence for resilience and vulnerability in offspring of holocaust survivors

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 394-402

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

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

functioning profile; midlife; offspring of Holocaust survivors; SHARE; transgenerational transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84555186782     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020608     Document Type: Article

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