Matsunaga Chieko, Ristic Dragana, Niregi Mitsuki
Study Course, Department of Psychology, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan.
Psychiatr Danub. 2006 Dec;18(3-4):177-82.
The purpose of this study is to examine the long term psychological effects of war stress regarded as traumatic experience. The subjects are Serbian internally displaced people (IDP) of adolescent population from Kosovo. It is a very big concern whether the adolescents would overcome the social and psychological difficulties caused by the war stress in order to reconstruct the better society. The result came out that the long-term effects still exist in PTSD, depression and hopelessness, which affects self-esteem and the attitude in purpose in life that are important factors for personality development. This paper also examines the difference between IDPs with war stress and the adolescent sufferers of the big earthquake in Japan.
本研究的目的是考察被视为创伤经历的战争压力的长期心理影响。研究对象是来自科索沃的青少年塞尔维亚国内流离失所者。青少年能否克服战争压力所带来的社会和心理困难以重建更美好的社会是一个非常令人担忧的问题。结果表明，创伤后应激障碍、抑郁和绝望等长期影响仍然存在，这会影响自尊以及对生活目标的态度，而这些都是人格发展的重要因素。本文还考察了有战争压力的国内流离失所者与日本大地震青少年受害者之间的差异。
