%0 Journal Article
%T Psychiatric patients in war: A study of anxiety, distress and world assumptions
%J Anxiety, stress, and coping
%D 1999
%A Sternik, Ilana
%A Solomon, Zahava
%A Ginzburg, Karni
%A Enoch, Dan
%V 12
%N 3
%P 235-246
%X Abstract The present study aimed to study the implication of war stress in emotional and cognitive response of psychiatric patients. Thirty-nine Israeli hospitalized schizophrenics and 39 comparable controls were assessed during the 1991 Gulf War. Subjects tilled out questionnaires evaluating anxiety, war-related symptomatology, and world assumptions. Results revealed that while psychiatric patients reported significantly higher levels of trait anxiety than controls, the two groups did not differ in war-related distress. Moreover, on most indices, hospitalized schizophrenics held more positive world assumptions than controls. Theoretical issues are discussed.<p />
%G 
%I Informa - Taylor and Francis Group
%@ 1061-5806
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615809908250476