Two hundred eight children of Holocaust survivors who were born after their parents' Holocaust experience (children of survivors; COS) and 70 children of parents who left Europe after Hitler's rise to power in 1933 but managed to escape or avoid the Holocaust (children of escapees; COE) were recruited from various Jewish organizations. Research was conducted using questionnaires that were returned by mail. Measures of stress resilience (Kobasa, 1982; Kobasa & Puccetti, 1983), locus of control (Nowicki-Strickland, 1973), and religion (Jewish identity) were administered to all participants. The COS were found to have less resistance to stress and to identify less with feelings of being Jewish. The appropriateness of using COE as a control group and the difficulty of incorporating the unique experiences of the parents into a research study about the intergenerational transmission of coping style is discussed.
To determine the incidence of psychosomatic predisposing factors in allergic disorders, somatic and psychologic batteries were devised and were administered to 65 male college students, 41 oi whom had been independently diagnosed as having allergic symptomatology, and 24 of whom had been independently diagnosed as free of such illness.In 75.6% of the subjects with allergies, both a somatic and a psychologic predisposing factor were evidenced, and in 75.0% of the subjects free of allergic disorders a concurrence of such factors was not present. This finding was statistically significant at the 0.001 level of confidence./JLN APPROACH to the study of the predisposing and precipitating factors of particular disorders which may be termed "psychosomatic" naturally must involve examination of both psychologic and biologic variables thought to be associated with the onset and persistence of the disorder.Such an approach has been exemplified by the work of Weiner et al., i8 which was concerned with factors involved in
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