Dent O F, Tennant C, Fairley M J, Sulway M R, Broe G A, Jorm A F, Creasey H, Allen B A
Department of Sociology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 1998 Apr;186(4):231-7. doi: 10.1097/00005053-199804000-00005.
The aim of this study was to compare the wives of Australian soldiers who had been imprisoned during World War II (POWs) with a control group of non-POWs' wives and also to compare the POWs and non-POWs themselves in respect to several psychological and family life characteristics on which differences might be expected to arise from the long-term effects of imprisonment. A random sample of 145 of these veterans and their wives completed several self-administered mood and family life scales, an inventory of somatic symptoms, questions about the impact of the war on the veteran in the postwar decades, and several social background questions. The POWs themselves were more depressed and reported more somatic symptoms and a greater postwar impact of the war than the non-POWs. However, these differences were not accompanied by concomitant differences among their wives. There was some evidence of an influence of the POW's mood on his wife's mood in significant correlations between husbands' and wives' depression and anxiety scale scores in POW couples alone. Otherwise, there was very little indication that the POW experience had any long-term effect on the marriage relationship as measured by the variables included in this study.
本研究的目的是将二战期间被囚禁的澳大利亚士兵的妻子（战俘妻子）与非战俘妻子的对照组进行比较，同时就一些心理和家庭生活特征对战俘和非战俘本身进行比较，长期囚禁可能会在这些特征上产生差异。从这些退伍军人及其妻子中随机抽取145人，他们完成了几份自我评定的情绪和家庭生活量表、一份躯体症状清单、关于战争在战后几十年对退伍军人影响的问题，以及几个社会背景问题。与非战俘相比，战俘本身更抑郁，报告的躯体症状更多，战争对其战后的影响也更大。然而，他们的妻子之间并没有伴随出现相应的差异。有证据表明，仅在战俘夫妻中，丈夫和妻子的抑郁与焦虑量表得分之间存在显著相关性，战俘的情绪会对其妻子的情绪产生影响。否则，几乎没有迹象表明，根据本研究纳入的变量衡量，战俘经历对婚姻关系有任何长期影响。
