Parental communication of Holocaust experiences and interpersonal patterns in offspring of Holocaust survivors
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This study examined the interpersonal problems and central relationship patterns of Holocaust Survivors’ Offspring (HSO) who were characterised by different patterns of parental communication of their parents’ Holocaust trauma. Fifty-six adults born to mothers who were survivors of Nazi concentration camps and 54 adults born to parents who immigrated to Israel before 1939 with their own parents (non-HSO) were recruited randomly from an Israeli sample. While the groups did not differ in their current mental health, HSO who reported nonverbal communication with little information about their mother’s trauma endorsed more interpersonal distress than HSO who experienced informative verbal communication and less affiliation than either HSO who experienced informative verbal communication or non-HSO. They also differed in their central relationship patterns with their parents and spouses. The findings are discussed in the context of the unique dynamics of growing up with the silent presence of the mother’s trauma.
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Parental silence about trauma can have negative consequences for the next generation.
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- Authors
- Wiseman, H., Barber, J. P., Raz, A., Yam, I., Foltz, C., & Livne-Snir, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Haifa (IL)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of Haifa, Israel
- Venue
- International Journal of Behavioral Development
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-07
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 371-381
- ISSN
- 0165-0254 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0651
- OpenAlex
- W1997923925
- Cited by
- 86
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 6 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 1.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Journal of Behavioral Development (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Keywords
- intergenerational trauma, parental communication, Holocaust trauma, interpersonal problems, nonverbal communication, verbal communication, affiliation, mother-child relationship, marital relationships
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