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The significance of experiences of war and migration in older age
— long-term consequences in child survivors from the Dutch East Indies | | Author(s) | Trudy T M Mooren, Rolf J Kleber |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 25, no 11, November 2013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, November 2013 |
| Pages | pp 1783-1794 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | War ; Migration ; Neuroses ; Stress ; Long term ; Children ; Life span ; Indonesia. |
| Annotation | This study examines late consequences of war and migration in both non-clinical and clinical samples of child survivors of World War II. This is one of the very few studies on the mental health of children who were subjected to internment in camps, hiding and violence under Japanese occupation in the Far East. It provides a unique case to learn about the significance of experiences of war and migration in later life. Long-term sequelae of Japanese persecution in the Dutch East Indies (DEI, now Indonesia) in child survivors were studied by analysing sets of standardised questionnaires of 939 persons. Instruments dealt with post-traumatic responses, general health and dissociation. Participants were recruited through community services and registers of clinical services. Discriminant analyses were conducted to evaluate the significance of early experiences in determining group belonging. Compared with age-matched controls that lived through the German occupation in the Netherlands during World War II, child survivors from the DEI reported both more trauma-related experiences and mental health disturbances in later life. These results underline the long-term significance of World War II-related traumatic experiences in the population of older child survivors who spent their childhood in the former DEI. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-131025210 A |
| Classmark | VMC: TN: EN: QNH: 4Q: SBC: BG6: 7XH |
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