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Race, combat, and PTSD in a community sample of New Zealand Vietnam war veterans

✍ Scribed by Carol MacDonald; Kerry Chamberlain; Nigel Lon

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 377 KB
Volume: 10
Category: Article
ISSN: 0894-9867
DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490100111

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✦ Synopsis

The association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), combat exposure, and race was eramined in a New Zealand community sample of 756 Vietnam War veterans. Maori veterans reported higher levek of PTSD than their non-Maori counterparts. However; the race effect was shown to be mediated by combat exposure level, rank, and combat role. These findings support differential experience explanations for the relationship between postwar adjustment and race, suggesting that higher levels of psychological symptoms reported by minority group veterans can be accounted for by their experience of higher levels of combat stressors.

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