Pre-Conception War Exposure and Mother and Child Adjustment 4 Years Later
| Autor: | Alice Shachar-Dadon, Micah Leshem, Noa Gueron-Sela, Ayala Maayan-Metzger, Zalman Weintraub |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Offspring Poison control Child Behavior Mothers Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Developmental psychology War Exposure 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention Adaptation Psychological Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 05 social sciences Human factors and ergonomics humanities Mother-Child Relations Psychiatry and Mental health Child Preschool Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of abnormal child psychology. 45(1) |
| ISSN: | 1573-2835 |
| Popis: | Evidence is accumulating for the transgenerational effects of maternal stress on offspring. A particular increasing concern is the possible transgenerational effects of community exposure to war and terror. Here, 107 mothers that had been exposed to war, were assessed with their 3 year old children (52 % girls) who had been conceived after the end of the war, and thus never directly exposed to war. The circumscribed nature (missile bombardment) and temporal limits (34 days) of the tragic 2006 Lebanon war in the north of Israel, affords a unique methodological opportunity to isolate an epoch of stress from preceding and subsequent normal life. We find that war experience engenders higher levels of mothers' separation anxiety, lower emotional availability in mother-child interaction, and lower levels of children's adaptive behavior. The novelty of these findings lies in documenting the nature and strength of transgenerational effects of war-related stress on offspring that were never exposed. In addition, because these effects were obtained after 4 years of a continuing period of normality, in which the children were born and raised, it suggests that an extended period of normality does not obliterate the effects of the war on mother and child behavior as assessed herein. Despite the study limitations, the results are indicative of persisting transgenerational effects of stress. |
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