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Understanding Gender Differences in Resilience Among Veterans: Trauma History and Social Ecology
Portnoy GA, Relyea MR, Decker S, Shamaskin‐Garroway A, Driscoll M, Brandt CA, Haskell SG. Understanding Gender Differences in Resilience Among Veterans: Trauma History and Social Ecology. Journal Of Traumatic Stress 2018, 31: 845-855. PMID: 30431668, DOI: 10.1002/jts.22341.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMilitary sexual traumaTrauma exposureTraumatic eventsTrauma typesCombat exposureResilience scoresSexual abuseSocial supportTraumatic Life Events QuestionnaireStranger violencePoor psychological outcomesLife Events QuestionnaireUnexpected traumaInterpersonal violenceGender differencesHierarchical linear regressionGreater social supportNoninterpersonal traumaPsychological resilienceInterpersonal traumaDeployment preparednessPsychological outcomesSexual traumaSocial-ecological frameworkTrauma history
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The Hope in Her Eyes: The Role of Children in Afghan Women’s Resilience
Brodsky AE, Talwar G, Welsh EA, Scheibler JE, Backer P, Portnoy GA, Carrillo A, Kline E. The Hope in Her Eyes: The Role of Children in Afghan Women’s Resilience. American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry 2012, 82: 358-366. PMID: 22880974, DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2012.01162.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdolescentAdultAfghanistanAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMother-Child RelationsMothersOrganizationsPakistanResilience, PsychologicalConceptsRole of childrenWomen's resilienceWomen of AfghanistanProtection of childrenStrengths-based approachProcess of resilienceRevolutionary AssociationPolitical activityAfghan womenResistance organizationsChildren's roleProtective factorsQualitative dataResilienceAfghanistanArticleUseful mechanismContextRawasUnique settingWomenConflictInterviewsRisk womenResponsibility