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| Correlates of war-induced stress responses among late middle-aged and elderly Israelis | | Author(s) | Edward Prager, Zahava Solomon |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 41, no 3, 1995 |
| Pages | pp 203-220 |
| Keywords | Emotions ; Behaviour ; Anxiety ; Stress ; War ; Jewish ; Correlation ; Israel. |
| Annotation | This article looks at the effects of the 1991 Gulf War on 164 late middle-aged and older Israelis, who were interviewed about their emotional and behavioural reactions. Subjective health, gender and attribution of meaning were the most significant variables, explaining most of the variance in the two measures of response. Satisfaction with informal network effectiveness was a relatively strong predictor of change in the affective distress variable. Degree of religious commitment and chronological age were weak but significant predictors of affective distress and social distress respectively. Location of residence in relation to missile impact zone was of no significance in explaining variance in the dependent measures. Findings are discussed in the light of the uniquely subjective, interpretive context of stress phenomena, and the need to identify those variables that explain individual differences among older adults in their responses to stress. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970425027 A |
| Classmark | DL: DM: ENP: QNH: VMC: TKS: 49: 7H6 |
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