Secondary traumatization and attachment among wives of former POWs: A longitudinal study

Y Lahav, Y Kanat-Maymon… - Attachment & Human …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of the present study was to examine the directionality of the association between
post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and attachment insecurities across time among …

Secondary traumatization and marital adjustment among former prisoners of war wives

G Zerach, T Greene, Z Solomon - Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We aimed to assess the associations between secondary traumatization (ST) and
perception of husbands' posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and marital adjustment …

Secondary traumatization and differentiation among the wives of former POWs: A reciprocal association

Y Lahav, Y Levin, M Bensimon… - … of Traumatic Stress, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Repercussions of war captivity may transmit to spouses of former prisoners of war (POW) via
posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). Overidentification with their partners underlies the …

The role of ex-POWs' PTSD symptoms and trajectories in wives' secondary traumatization.

T Greene, Y Lahav, I Bronstein… - Journal of Family …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Secondary traumatization describes the phenomenon whereby those in proximity to trauma
survivors develop psychological symptoms similar to those experienced by the direct …

Secondary traumatization among wives of Israeli POWs: The role of POWs' distress

R Dekel, Z Solomon - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2006 - Springer
Background The aim of the study is to examine secondary traumatization of wives of former
prisoners of war (POWs) as manifested in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms …

Complex trauma of war captivity: A prospective study of attachment and post-traumatic stress disorder

Z Solomon, R Dekel, M Mikulincer - Psychological Medicine, 2008 - cambridge.org
BackgroundVictims of war captivity sometimes suffer from complex post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD), a unique form of PTSD that entails various alterations in personality. These …

PTSD symptoms and marital adjustment among ex-POWs' wives.

Y Levin, T Greene, Z Solomon - Journal of Family Psychology, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
This study prospectively assessed the implications of war captivity and former prisoners of
war's (ex-POWs) posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and PTSD trajectory on their wives' …

Posttraumatic distress and growth among wives of prisoners of war: The contribution of husbands' posttraumatic stress disorder and wives' own attachment

R Dekel - American journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined distress and growth among wives of former combat veterans and
prisoners of war (POWs), and the contribution of their husband's posttraumatic stress …

Trajectories of attachment insecurities over a 17-year period: A latent growth curve analysis of the impact of war captivity and posttraumatic stress disorder

M Mikulincer, T Ein-Dor, Z Solomon… - Journal of Social and …, 2011 - Guilford Press
In this study, we assessed the 17-year trajectories of attachment insecurities (anxiety and
avoidance) and examined their relations to having been a prisoner of war and suffering from …

Twofold trauma exposure–the dual function of attachment avoidance

Y Lahav, A Siegel, Z Solomon - Attachment & Human …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Spouses of traumatized war veterans might suffer from distress following indirect exposure
to combat and direct exposure to domestic abuse. Yet the effect of this twofold trauma …