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Reassessing War Stress: Exposure and the Persian Gulf War
Author(s) -
Wolfe Jessica,
Brown Pamela J.,
Kelley John M.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1993.tb01179.x
Subject(s) - conceptualization , persian , software deployment , gulf war , vietnam war , psychology , spanish civil war , social psychology , political science , history , law , economic history , engineering , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , software engineering , artificial intelligence
Research has shown a clear association between war‐zone exposure and psychological readjustment in soldiers. Newer findings suggest that certain event and person characteristics are especially influential in this process. The present article has the following goals: (a) to review existing parameters in the traditional measurement of war‐zone exposure, (b) to consider conceptual and methodological limitations in these approaches, (c) to present empirical data from a cohort of Persian Gulf War veterans that support the utility of a broader conceptualization of war trauma, and (d) to examine how gender may be differentially associated with some dimensions of war‐zone stress and psychological outcome following deployment. Data suggest that identifying diverse dimensions of war‐zone stress may enhance efforts to understand veterans' initial and long‐range wartime recovery.