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The effects of prolonged exposure to terror on psychological distress symptoms, behaviors, and attitudes.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The effects of prolonged exposure to terror on psychological distress symptoms, behaviors, and attitudes./
Author:	Malevski-Hameiri, Inbar.
Description:	236 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-09B(E).
Subject:	Clinical psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3700911
ISBN:	9781321711554

The effects of prolonged exposure to terror on psychological distress symptoms, behaviors, and attitudes.
Malevski-Hameiri, Inbar.

The effects of prolonged exposure to terror on psychological distress symptoms, behaviors, and attitudes. - 236 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Psy.D.)--Alliant International University, 2015.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The West-Negev settlements in the State of Israel, which are settlements that surround the Gaza Strip, are experiencing the firing of rockets and mortar shells by Palestinian terror organizations, since the year 2001. A study of prolonged exposure to terror in the West-Negev settlements was conducted via telephone survey in August 2010, with 397 Jewish adults. In this study, the prevalence of depressive and PTSD symptoms that are likely to cause significant symptoms was about three to four times higher than the national average. However, the West-Negev residents' reported level of functioning indicated resiliency, despite the residents' intensive and prolonged exposure to terror and high prevalence of symptoms. The study examined a multivariate SEM model. In confirmation of the model, the study's findings indicated that prolonged exposure to terror predicted fear from terror and adaptive terror preparedness behaviors (ATP). Fear from terror predicted ATP behaviors and ATP behaviors predicted depressive and PTSD symptoms. These findings support the predictions of terror management theory. These findings point to the motivating aspect of fear from terror in developing behaviors directed at increasing the chances of survival of a terror threat in support of the fear hypothesis. In addition, the strong positive association between exposure to terror and ATP behaviors validated the concept of ATP as a survival mechanism and the foundation of resilience and confirmed the use of such behaviors by the West-Negev residents. Finally, the strong association between ATP behaviors and psychological distress symptoms indicated that participants who engaged more in ATP behaviors perceived themselves as experiencing more psychological distress. This indicates that ATP behaviors are not a stress management mechanism but a survival mechanism directed at minimizing a threat, and may reflect the West-Negev resident's feelings of helplessness in light of their ongoing security threat. This association also supports the definition of resilience by which individuals bounce back following adversity yet that the path to resilience is likely to be accompanied by significant emotional distress. The study's limitations, implications and suggested future research are discussed.

ISBN: 9781321711554Subjects--Topical Terms:

524863
Clinical psychology.

The effects of prolonged exposure to terror on psychological distress symptoms, behaviors, and attitudes.
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