LEADER 03854cam a2200385Ia 4500001 43804 005 20240621144722.0 008 000523s1998 xx r 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm45017333 035 43804 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 RC451.4.H62 |bT98 1998 100 1 Tytell, Tikva. 245 10 Trauma and its aftermath : |ba differentiated picture of aftereffects of trauma in daughters of Holocaust survivors / |cby Tikva Tytell. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1998. 300 vii, 149 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--New School for Social Research, 1998. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-149). 520 It was long assumed that a trauma as horrendous as the Holocaust must have had pathological aftereffects not only on the survivors, but also on their offspring. Recent empirical studies have failed to confirm these outcomes. However, there are indications of psychological aftereffects manifested in various life domains as vulnerabilities, as strengths, or both. One aim of this study was to create an empirical and differentiated picture of aftereffects, with strengths postulated in properties of hardiness, empathy, and motive to achieve, and vulnerability in compromised intimacy. The study compared a group of daughters of Holocaust survivors (DOHS) (n = 60) and a group of Jewish women whose parents did not experience directly the Holocaust (n = 57). It was hypothesized that the DOHS would score significantly higher than the controls on measures of hardiness, achievement motivation, empathy, and fear of intimacy. According to the adult-development theoretical framework, Survivors' children are now in a stage (middle-adulthood) when generativity issues (i.e., caring for the next generation) emerge and are salient. The study's second set of hypotheses postulated that DOHS would score higher than the controls on the generative concerns scale and the generative action scale, and that there would be differences between the groups in the expression of generativity. The two groups' subjects completed the WOFO, IRI, Hardiness, FIS, LGS, and GBS scales. Social desirability tendency was measured by MC SD. A one way ANOVA and ANCOVA were used to analyze the data. Interviews were conducted with a sub-sample. Overall, DOHS were not found to differ from their control counterparts in most dimensions measured. However, DOHS reported an inferior quality of relationship with their mothers, an effect associated with increased fear of intimacy. There was a near significant difference indicating that the DOHS have a lesser motivation to master especially challenging tasks. DOHS were less concerned with the well being of the next generation, yet were equally active generatively. Unlike the controls, whose generativity was associated with both agentic-achievement and communal-relational tendencies, the generativity of DOHS related only to their communal-relational proclivities. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2000. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Children of Holocaust survivors |xPsychology. 650 0 Daughters. 650 0 Psychic trauma. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=732827461&sid=27&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib43804/9900455.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hRC451.4.H62 |iT98 1998 852 |bwww 852 |bebook