Ben-Zur Hasida
School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2008 Jul;21(3):295-307. doi: 10.1080/10615800801956177.
The study aims to assess the personal resources of mastery-optimism, and communal support beliefs, as predictors of posttraumatic stress and adaptation in uprooted Israelis following Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria in the summer of 2005. A telephone interview of a sample of 104 respondents slated to be uprooted was conducted several weeks before the disengagement (TI), and again 9 months after the event (T2). At T1, respondents answered a questionnaire which included assessments of dispositional optimism and mastery, beliefs in the availability of community-family and governmental-societal support, nation-related anxiety, and demographic data. Posttraumatic stress levels were assessed at T2. The main findings showed that high levels of mastery-optimism and low nation-related anxiety at T1 predicted a low severity of total posttraumatic stress scores at T2. A high educational level and a secular identity also predicted low posttraumatic stress. In contrast, communal support beliefs were not related to posttraumatic stress. These findings point to the importance of personal resources and education as protective factors against posttraumatic stress following an event such as forced uprooting.
该研究旨在评估掌控-乐观的个人资源以及社会支持信念，将其作为2005年夏季以色列从加沙地带和北撒马利亚脱离接触后，流离失所的以色列人创伤后应激和适应情况的预测指标。在脱离接触前几周（TI），对104名预计将流离失所的受访者样本进行了电话访谈，并在事件发生9个月后（T2）再次进行访谈。在T1时，受访者回答了一份问卷，其中包括对性格乐观和掌控感的评估、对社区-家庭和政府-社会支持可得性的信念、与国家相关的焦虑以及人口统计学数据。在T2时评估创伤后应激水平。主要研究结果表明，T1时较高的掌控-乐观水平和较低的与国家相关的焦虑预测了T2时创伤后应激总分的低严重程度。高教育水平和世俗身份也预测了低创伤后应激水平。相比之下，社会支持信念与创伤后应激无关。这些发现表明，个人资源和教育作为诸如被迫流离失所等事件后预防创伤后应激的保护因素具有重要意义。
