Reassessing War Stress: Exposure and the Persian Gulf War

摘要: Research has shown a clear association between war-zone exposure and psychological readjustment in soldiers. Newer findings suggest that certain event person characteristics are especially influential this process. The present article the following goals: (a) to review existing parameters traditional measurement of exposure, (b) consider conceptual methodological limitations these approaches, (c) empirical data from cohort Persian Gulf War veterans support utility broader conceptualization war trauma, (d) examine how gender may be differentially associated with some dimensions stress outcome deployment. Data identifying diverse enhance efforts understand veterans' initial long-range wartime recovery.