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Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth in Three Generations of Czech and Slovak Holocaust Survivors.

Authors

PREISS Marek ŠAMÁNKOVÁ Dita ŠTIPL Jiří FŇAŠKOVÁ Monika NEČASOVÁ Markéta BOB Petr HEISSLER Radek PROKOPOVÁ Alice HEŘMÁNKOVÁ Tereza JURIČKOVÁ Veronika REKTOR Ivan WAGENKNECHTOVÁ Eva SANDERS Edel

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source JOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS
MU Faculty or unit

Central European Institute of Technology

Citation
Web https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jts.22711
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.22711
Keywords 3RD-GENERATION;DISORDER;CHILDREN;2ND
Description The psychological consequences of trauma related to the Holocaust have been primarily studied in samples derived from Israel, North America, and Western Europe. Few studies have examined postcommunist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The present study focused on three generations living in the Czech Republic and Slovakia after World War II (WWII): Holocaust survivors (71–95 years of age), their children (30–73 years of age), and their grandchildren (15–48 years of age). We compared scores on measures of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS; the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist–Civilian Version) and posttraumatic growth (PTG; the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory) derived from three focal samples with scores from age-matched comparison participants. Higher PTSS scores emerged for Holocaust survivors in all generations, ?2P=.087 but only participants in the first generation reported higher PTG scores relative to the comparison group, with small effect sizes for the overall group differences, ?2P=.029. These results are discussed in the historical and political context of postwar Czechoslovakia.
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