TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Psychiatric patients in war: A study of anxiety, distress and world assumptions
JO  - Anxiety, stress, and coping
A1  - Sternik, Ilana
A1  - Solomon, Zahava
A1  - Ginzburg, Karni
A1  - Enoch, Dan
SP  - 235
EP  - 246
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1061-5806
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615809908250476
ID  - ref1
ER  -