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- Title
Anxiety, depression and anger in Dutch Resistance veterans from World War II.
- Authors
Hovens, Johannes E.; Op den Velde, Wybrand; Falger, Paul R.J.; Schouten, Eric G.W.; De Groen, Johannes H.M.; Van Duijn, Hans; Hovens, J E; Op den Velde, W; Falger, P R; Schouten, E G; De Groen, J H; Van Duijn, H
- Abstract
In this study, 147 Dutch Resistance veterans from WW II are evaluated on psychometric instruments for anxiety, depression and anger. Resistance veterans appeared to be more anxious, depressive and angry on these instruments compared to controls from the validation studies of the respective instruments. Veterans currently suffering from PTSD (56%) were significantly more anxious, depressed, and angry than veterans without PTSD. With respect to staying in Nazi concentration camps, which is an extremely severe stressor, and in which half of the veterans were imprisoned, no difference on the three instruments was found. Anxiety, depression and anger were observed to be highly interrelated in PTSD. The close interrelationship between anxiety and depression, anxiety and danger, and depression and anger mediated by way of anxiety is, however, not unique for traumatized subjects. It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
- Publication
Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, 1992, Vol 57, Issue 4, p172
- ISSN
0033-3190
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1159/000288595