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Coping with Missile Attack: Resources, Strategies, and Outcomes

Zeidner, Moshe, Hammer, Allen L.·1992·Journal of Personality
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00271.x
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ABSTRACT The coping process was examined in a group of Israeli subjects experiencing SCUD missile attacks during the Persian Gulf War. We were interested in examining the relationship of coping resources, optimism, perceived control, and coping strategies, to anxiety, to physical symptoms, and to cognitive functioning during a real crisis. Data were gathered via structured questionnaires in the midst of the Persian Gulf War (February 1991) on a sample of 261 adult respondents residing in northern Israel. Although people reported a mixture of palliative and active coping strategies, it was the use of palliative coping efforts that predicted greater anxiety and physical symptoms. Subjects with greater coping resources used more palliative and active coping strategies and had higher cognitive functioning. However, active coping did not predict any of the negative stress reactions (i.e., anxiety and physical symptoms). People who perceived being in control of the situation reported using less palliative coping and fewer symptoms. That active coping did not predict negative stress reactions may have been a function of the severity of the stressor, and the resultant high levels of anxiety that were engendered. Overall, these findings do point to a different coping process in a grave and ongoing disaster situation than that reported in reaction to more normal life events.

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Authors
Zeidner, M., & Hammer, A. L.
Affiliations
University of Haifa (IL)
Corresponding author
Zeidner, Moshe
Venue
Journal of Personality
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1992-12
Volume
60
Issue
4
Pages
709-746
ISSN
  • 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-6494
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00271.x
OpenAlex
W2144883929
Cited by
123
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 7
FWCI
5.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 4896 d)
Locations
Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
Keywords
coping strategies, palliative coping, active coping, Gulf War, anxiety, somatic symptoms, cognitive function, optimism, perceived control, coping resources, stress reactions, disaster stress, combat stress

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