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Mechanisms of psychological distress following war in the former Yugoslavia: the role of interpersonal sensitivity.
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- Long-term psychological effects of war trauma and migration: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of Balkan war survivors.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Daily Stress Variability in Two Generations of Survivors of the War in the Former Yugoslavia.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Article
- Health and well-being of older adults in rural and urban Rwanda: epidemiological findings from a population based cross-sectional study.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Travelers between cultures: The war and post-war generations.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Pathway from interpersonal sensitivity to depression among Chinese college students during the COVID-19 campus lockdown.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Interpersonal Sensitivity as Mediator of the Relations Between War Experiences and Mental Illness in War-Affected Youth in Northern Uganda: Findings From the WAYS Study.Traumatology · 2018Article
- An ecological model of adaptation to displacement: individual, cultural and community factors affecting psychosocial adjustment among Syrian refugees in Jordan.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2018Article
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Abstract
While high prevalence rates of psychological symptoms have been documented in civilian survivors of war, little is known about the mechanisms by which trauma exposure might lead to poor psychological outcomes in these populations. One potential mechanism that may underpin the association between war-related traumatic experiences and psychopathology is interpersonal sensitivity. In the current study, we applied structural equation modeling to investigate the impact of interpersonal sensitivity on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depression symptoms, and anger responses following exposure to war trauma. 3313 survivors of the war in the former Yugoslavia were identified and selected using a multistage, probabilistic sampling frame and random walk technique. Participants were interviewed regarding trauma exposure, interpersonal sensitivity, and PTSD symptoms, depression symptoms, and anger responses. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that the relationship between trauma and PTSD symptoms and depression symptoms was partly statistically mediated by interpersonal sensitivity. Further, findings indicated that the relationship between trauma and anger responses was fully statistically mediated by interpersonal sensitivity. These results suggest that interpersonal sensitivity may function as a key mechanism that contributes to psychopathology following trauma.
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