TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - A cross-cultural longitudinal examination of the effect of cumulative adversity on the mental and physical health of older adults
JO  - Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy
A1  - Palgi, Yuval
A1  - Shrira, Amit
SP  - 172
EP  - 179
VL  - 8
IS  - 2
N2  - Self-oriented adversity refers to traumatic events that primarily inflict the self, whereas other-oriented adversity refers to events that affect the self by primarily targeting others. The present study aimed to examine whether cultural background moderates the effects of self-oriented and other-oriented adversity on mental and physical health of older adults. Using longitudinal data from the Israeli component of the Survey of Health and Retirement, we focused on 370 Jews and 239 Arabs who reported their exposure to various adversities across the life span, and completed questionnaires regarding mental and physical health. <br><br>RESULTS showed that the effect of self-oriented adversity on health did not differ among Jews and Arabs. However, other-oriented adversity showed a stronger effect on Arabs' mental and physical health than on Jews' health. Our findings suggest that the accumulation of adverse events that affect the self by primarily targeting others may have a stronger impact in collectivist cultures than in individualist cultures.     (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1942-9681
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000056
ID  - ref1
ER  -