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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12358/25667
TitleDispositional and situational coping and mental health among Palestinian political ex-prisoners
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We examined, first, differences in dispositional and situational coping, and psychological distress between political ex-prisoners and their matched controls, and second, coping effectiveness in protecting mental health from impacts of imprisonment and military trauma. Thirdly, we tested the hypothesis that compatibility (“goodness of fit”) between dispositional and situational coping would predict low psychological distress. Participants were 184 men recruited from a Palestinian community sample, 92 were former political prisoners and 92 non-prisoners. The dispositional coping was assessed as a general response style to hypothetical stressors and situational coping as responses to their own traumatic experiences. Psychological distress was measured by SCL-90-R, and posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and somatoform symptoms by scales based on CIDI 2.1 diagnostic interview. The results showed that …

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Punamäki, Raija-Leena
Salo, Jari A
Komproe, Ivan H
Qouta, Samir
Elmasri, Mustafa
Jong, Joop Tvm DE
TypeJournal Article
Date2008
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dispositional and situational coping
depression
ptsd
hostility
political prisoners
Published inAnxiety, Stress, & Coping
SeriesVolume: 21, Number: 4
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
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