TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1983//
TI  - Survival in extreme conditions
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Halsema, J.
A1  - Bloom, M.
SP  - 195
EP  - 206
VL  - 13
IS  - 3
N2  - This article explores the psychosocial and environmental configurations that might have been responsible for an unusual situation of survival under extreme conditions. A group of 500 civilians (mostly Americans) lived 31/2 years in a Japanese internment camp in the philippines during World War II. Although conditions were very harsh, the survival rate of this group was better than expected for a comparable group under normal conditions. Discussion of available demographic, social organizational, and cultural information leads to three hypotheses that might account for this outcome.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -