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Religiosity and secondary traumatic stress in Israeli‐Jewish body handlers
Author(s) -
Hyman Ofra
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.20057
Subject(s) - religiosity , general health questionnaire , intrusion , psychiatry , clinical psychology , psychology , traumatic stress , judaism , confounding , cohort , medicine , mental health , demography , social psychology , theology , philosophy , geochemistry , sociology , geology
This study investigated the relationship between religiosity and levels of secondary traumatic stress in Israeli‐Jewish body handlers. The Impact of Event Scale (IES), the General Health Questionnaire, 12 Items (GHQ‐12), and a prior exposure severity tool were used to assess secondary traumatic stress symptoms in 63 ultraorthodox male body handlers as they compared to 86 secular forensic identification technicians from the Israeli police. Excluding possible confounders of age and number of years at the job, there was no significant difference between the religious and nonreligious groups on the intrusion and avoidance scores, whereas the GHQ‐12 scores were significantly higher among the religious group. Religiosity did not seem to have a salutary effect on secondary traumatic stress in this cohort.