Steinglass P, De-Nour A K
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20037.
Psychiatry. 1988 Feb;51(1):80-95. doi: 10.1080/00332747.1988.11024382.
This report focuses on a set of findings regarding differential adjustment patterns of Ashkenazi (Western) versus Sephardi (Oriental) Jews when faced with a stressful life event. The event in question was the wholesale evacuation of the Israeli Sinai community of Ophira (Sharm-el-Sheik in Arabic) when the Sinai was handed over to Egyptian control in March 1982. Immediately prior to the evacuation, the authors went down to Ophira to carry out a study of patterns of psychosocial adjustment of community residents designed to assess the relationships between individual coping styles, personal network characteristics, levels of psychological distress, and adequacy of social adjustment. Data were collected from a sample of 66 adult civilian community residents (31 men; 35 women), a sample that by coincidence was composed of two reputedly quite different ethnic subgroups: Israeli-born Jews whose parents were of European origin; and "Oriental" Jews, i.e., immigrants from Moslem countries. This fortuitous mix allowed us to carry out the analyses exploring ethnic differences in adjustment and their possible causes that are to be presented in this paper.
本报告聚焦于一组关于阿什肯纳兹（西方）犹太人与塞法迪（东方）犹太人在面对压力性生活事件时不同适应模式的研究结果。所涉事件是1982年3月西奈半岛移交埃及控制时，以色列西奈半岛奥费拉社区（阿拉伯语称沙姆沙伊赫）的大规模撤离。在撤离前不久，作者前往奥费拉，对社区居民的心理社会适应模式进行研究，旨在评估个体应对方式、个人社交网络特征、心理困扰程度与社会适应充足性之间的关系。数据收集自66名成年平民社区居民样本（31名男性；35名女性），巧合的是，该样本由两个据称差异颇大的族裔亚群体组成：父母为欧洲血统的以色列出生的犹太人；以及“东方”犹太人，即来自穆斯林国家的移民。这种偶然的组合使我们能够进行分析，探究本文即将呈现的适应方面的种族差异及其可能原因。
