ArticleAnnals of general psychiatry2019
Intergenerational transmission of war-related trauma assessed 40 years after exposure.
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- Resilience frameworks, measurement tools, and transmission processes in the context of man-made collective trauma: a meta-synthesis and multilevel meta-analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of intergenerational trauma on second-generation descendants: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The association between paternal PTSD and child mental health: a systematic literature review.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Review
- Partner military deployment during wartime is associated with maternal depression and impaired maternal-infant attachment: a matched-control study from the Israel-Hamas war.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Fathers' mental Ill-health and child maltreatment: A systematic review of the literature.Children and youth services review · 2024Article
- Harbingers of Hope: Scientists and the Pursuit of World Peace.Clinical psychology in Europe · 2023Article
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- "A calf cannot fail to pick a colour from its mother": intergenerational transmission of trauma and its effect on reconciliation among post-genocide Rwandan youth.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Childhood Maltreatment, Mental Well-Being, and Healthy Lifestyle in Patients With Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Vulnerability Factors Associated with Lifetime Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Veterans 40 Years after War.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Time spent following the Russian-Ukranian war (RUW) and psychological distress: The role of sleep problems.Health psychology openArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe intergenerational transmission of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from parent to offspring has been suggested in the literature, but this is highly controversial. We aimed to study the association between veterans' war exposure and lifetime PTSD and the psychological characteristics of their respective offspring, 40 years after war-related trauma.
methodsForty-four adult offspring of veterans with PTSD and 29 offspring of veterans without PTSD were included in the study, from a total of 46 veterans. War exposure intensity, lifetime PTSD, and the general psychopathology (with Brief Symptom Inventory-BSI) of the veterans were studied, as were childhood trauma, attachment, and the general psychopathology (with BSI) of their offspring.
resultsVeterans' war exposure was associated with BSI in the offspring with regard to somatisation (
conclusionsThe offspring of war veterans showed increased psychological suffering as a function of their fathers' war exposure intensity, but not of their fathers' lifetime PTSD. These results could be used to suggest that mental health support for veterans' offspring should consider the war exposure intensity of their fathers, and not just psychopathology. This could spare offspring's suffering if this mental health support could be delivered early on, after veterans return from war.
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