The Transgenerational Impact of Holocaust Trauma: Current State of the Evidence

Last, Uriel

doi:10.1080/00207411.1988.11449114

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“…Children of Holocaust survivors perceived their parents' lacking emotional involvement as a function of the seriousness of their traumatic experiences (Last, 1989). In our sample, both emotionally negative parenting such as rejection and hostility, and strict discipline, increased with the family's exposure to traumatic events.…”

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Relationships between Traumatic Events, Children’s Gender, and Political Activity, and Perceptions of Parenting Styles

Punamäki

Qouta

Sarraj

1997

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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The associations between traumatic events, children’s gender and political activity, and parenting styles were examined among 108 Palestinians of 11-12 years of age. The results showed that the more the children were exposed to traumatic events, the more they perceived both their parents as strictly disciplining, rejecting, and hostile, and their mothers as more negatively evaluating. The boys perceived both their parents as treating them more negatively than the girls did. Affectionate parenting, such as intimacy and love, for its part, was not associated with traumatic events, and did not vary according to the child’s gender or political activity. The gender of the child affected the association between traumatic events, political activity, and perceived parenting. Traumatic events increased perceived parental rejection and hostility only among the boys, and perceived strict disciplining only among the girls. Although politically active children perceived both of their parents as more negative in general, in the families exposed to a high level of traumatic events, passive boys perceived their fathers as more rejecting and hostile than active boys did. It is suggested that mothers and fathers rear girls restrictively and with greater attention, and boys with rejection, when the family faces traumatic events. In exposed families, fathers also tend to discourage boys’ political passivity and apparently encourage activity.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Relationships between Traumatic Events, Children’s Gender, and Political Activity, and Perceptions of Parenting Styles

Punamäki

Qouta

Sarraj

1997

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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“…Studies of nonclinical populations, however, do not identify this in such families. Last & Klein (117,118) studied the transgenerational effect of the traumatisation of par-difference in emotional symptoms and behavioural symptoms (111). ents in a group of 76 young descendants of Holocaust survivors and a matched control group without this Subsequent studies have concentrated more on differences not necessarily directly manifested in psy-family background.…”

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“…In particular, these are conflicts relating to separation, individu-to such an experience. On the basis of existing knowledge it seems reasonable to conclude that all ation and the management of aggression (111). Freyberg (113) thus concludes from a qualitative children who have been exposed to war and other forms of organised violence are influenced by such analysis of clinical material, that survivors may find their parental skills insufficient when their children experience, but that their reactions are dependent upon their physical and mental health, the presence in puberty are focused on independence and the development of separate identities.…”

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“…The opportunity for assuming an active role in concentration camp, and may experience the development of independence in their own children as yet conflict situations has been presumed a modifying factor for the relationship between traumatic experi-another family loss (111,113,115 (69). Thus in a randomised, stratified study of 796 children from 300 descendants of Holocaust survivors with a matched control group of 19 individuals (10 men, 9 women) families on the West Bank and Gaza, Baker (119) examined the manner in which participation in the whose parents emigrated to Israel before World War II.…”

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“…As Parents' current behaviour towards their children is also shown in clinical studies of the children of was a risk indicator for anxiety when the mother or Holocaust survivors, this can complicate the child's father hit or punished the child more than they had development of independence (111). Overdone prior to arriving in Denmark (Table 53).…”

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