Citation

Kucukalic A, Bravo-Mehmedbasic A, Popović S, Salcić-Dizdarević D, Dizdarević T. Med. Arh. 2003; 57(5-6 Suppl 1): 9-12.

Vernacular Title

Razlike koping strategija u suocavanju sa iskustvom ratne traume izmedu zrtava

Affiliation

Psihijatrijska klinika KCU Sarajevo.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Drustva Ljekara Bosne I Hercegovine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15022561

Abstract

AIM: To define the differences in coping strategies between the victims of torture and the local inhabitants with the experience of war. METHOD: The subjects were divided in two groups. Each group consisted of 50 subjects. The first group included the subjects with the experience of torture, and the second group had the subjects who have survived the war but not torture. The Coping strategies were registered by the Coping Scale. RESULTS: A significant decrease in socioeconomic status of torture victims after the war. On all the subscales of the Coping Scale, there is a statistically significant difference between the torture victims and the second group to the effect that the prior group has higher scores in all subscales as well as the higher overall score of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies. CONCLUSION: Higher mean score in coping strategies in significantly more frequent in torture survivors, than in local population with the experience of war, that confirms theoretical discussions about coping as a dynamical process that is in reciprocal relation between the individual and the environment.

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