TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Psychological complaints, interpersonal problems, quality of life and sense of coherence in former German war children
JO  - Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie
A1  - Kuwert, Philipp
A1  - Spitzer, Carsten
A1  - Dudeck, Manuela
A1  - Vogel, M.
A1  - Freyberger, Harald J.
A1  - Ermann, Michael
SP  - 257
EP  - 263
VL  - 58
IS  - 6
N2  - Recently there is a growing psycho-traumatological interest in late life effects in former German war children. The following article focuses on kind and amount of trauma and psychopathology (Symptom Check List 90-R; SCL-90-R) in elderly people, who have grown up during World War II. By means of psychometric self-reports we assessed their current interpersonal problems (Inventory of Interpersonal Problems; IIP), the quality of life (SF-36 Health Survey) and their sense of coherence (Antonovsky's Sense of coherence-Scale; SOC). Compared to norms from the general population and from "healthy controls", respectively, former German war children showed a higher psychopathological distress. They showed an interpersonal pattern of lower expressive/dominant in favor of enlarged passive and caring behaviour. The psychosocial dimension of quality of life was reduced, in contrast to the somatic scales. The former war children showed an increased sense of coherence, especially in the dimension of "meaningfulness". We discuss our findings in the light of the current scientific knowledge and highlight possible future prospects to develop the war childhood debate from the clinical and scientific point of view.<p />  <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0937-2032
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2007-986210
ID  - ref1
ER  -