Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-10-04eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/192409
Olivia Revels-Strother, Michaela Quaschnick, Tristan Miller, Alan King
{"title":"Childhood illnesses as risk indicators of adult mental health symptomatology.","authors":"Olivia Revels-Strother, Michaela Quaschnick, Tristan Miller, Alan King","doi":"10.5114/hpr/192409","DOIUrl":"10.5114/hpr/192409","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Links between childhood illnesses such as acne and migraines and co-occurring or subsequent mental health symptomatology are not well understood. Early medical histories have seldom been examined as adversity risk indicators.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>This survey analysis of college students (<i>N</i> = 2,636) examined links between four forms of childhood illness (migraine headaches, acne, asthma, and enuresis) and adult mental health symptomatology.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four medical conditions often diagnosed in childhood or adolescence were prevalent enough in the college sample to test as risk indicators for lifetime mental health concerns. All four medical illnesses significantly raised the odds (ORM = 2.04) of lifetime depressive and anxiety disorder diagnoses. Current symptomatology was also raised for all but one (enuresis) medical condition. These effects were found after controlling for respondent age and various forms of childhood maltreatment (sexual, physical, and/or emotional abuse).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Heightened awareness of medical histories during clinical intake assessments seems warranted. Adversity researchers might also consider the inclusion of childhood medical conditions as future maladjustment risk indicators. Study limitations included the cross-sectional design and unclearly specified timing of the self-reported psychological and health recollections. The role of modulating variables such as gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and family climate in physical-mental health relationships warrants continued focus.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"13 2","pages":"133-144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12140158/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Persons in helping professions in social assistance facilities and their fears related to COVID-19 using the example of Poland and Spain.","authors":"Edyta Janus, Raquel Cantero Téllez, Katarzyna Filar-Mierzwa, Paulina Aleksander-Szymanowicz, Aneta Bac","doi":"10.5114/hpr/191478","DOIUrl":"10.5114/hpr/191478","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The aim of the research was to collect opinions on concerns related to COVID-19 among persons in helping professions in social assistance facilities.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The study involved 407 people, including 207 from Poland and 200 from Spain (346 women and 61 men). The research tool was the authors' questionnaire. Employees of social welfare institutions located in Poland and Spain were selected using purposive sampling. Respondents completed paper and electronic versions of the survey questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The relationship between each helping profession and concerns about the threat to one's own life and that of loved ones in connection with COVID-19, as well as the relationship between each profession and the fear that the financial situation would deteriorate due to COVID-19, showed a statistically significant relationship only in the study of employees from Poland. The relationship between each profession and the fear of losing one's job due to COVID-19 showed a statistically significant result only in the study of employees from Spain.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study showed that the COVID-19 pandemic affected employees in helping professions in social assistance institutions. Employees from Poland feared more that their financial situation would deteriorate, and felt a threat to their health and the health of their relatives and charges. On the other hand, many more workers from Spain expressed a fear of losing their jobs. Occupational therapists most often indicated fears related to the COVID-19 pandemic except for concerns about charges, which were expressed most often by psychologists.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"13 2","pages":"170-177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12140147/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-08-20eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/190886
Ilona Poćwierz-Marciniak, Łucja Bieleninik, Johana Benavidez Cruz, Yenny M Beltrán Ardila, Joanna Jassem-Bobowicz, Sonia A Henádez Malaver, Ana M Díaz, Nestor N Muñetones Reina, Leslie I Martínez De la Barrera, Alba J Castro Gaona, Mark Ettenberger
{"title":"Short-term effectiveness of music therapy songwriting for mental health outcomes of at-risk parents in the NICU: a study protocol of an international multicenter mixed-methods trial.","authors":"Ilona Poćwierz-Marciniak, Łucja Bieleninik, Johana Benavidez Cruz, Yenny M Beltrán Ardila, Joanna Jassem-Bobowicz, Sonia A Henádez Malaver, Ana M Díaz, Nestor N Muñetones Reina, Leslie I Martínez De la Barrera, Alba J Castro Gaona, Mark Ettenberger","doi":"10.5114/hpr/190886","DOIUrl":"10.5114/hpr/190886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Preterm birth contributes to adverse mental health outcomes of parents dealing with a premature neonate. The main objective of this study is to determine whether music therapy (MT) songwriting during the infants' stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is superior to standard care in reducing the risk of postpartum depression in high-risk parents of preterm children throughout the hospital treatment. The secondary objectives include assessment of effectiveness of MT in other aspects of mental health (anxiety level, perceived stress, mental wellbeing, coping, resilience). Furthermore, this trial will evaluate the medical and social factors that may be associated with the effects of MT songwriting.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The study design is a sequential mixed method study with a dominant status QUAN to qual. The quantitative trial was designed as a parallel, multicenter, pragmatic, randomized controlled trial. The qualitative study is a descriptive phenomenological study that seeks to understand the lived experiences of participants exposed to songwriting. Participants are parents of premature infants hospitalized in NICU (106 families) in 5 hospitals, in Colombia and Poland. Intervention: 3 MT songwriting sessions per week across 3 weeks. Primary outcome: the risk of postnatal depression; secondary outcomes: anxiety level, mental wellbeing, resilience, stress, coping.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results will be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study will provide a report on the effectiveness of MT songwriting on mental health in at-risk parents of preterm infants.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 3","pages":"260-274"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11370736/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142134134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-08-19eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/189699
Ewa M Szepietowska, Sara Filipiak, Ewa Zawadzka
{"title":"The contribution of socio-demographic, health-related and psychological factors to the perception of changes in life following a few waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Ewa M Szepietowska, Sara Filipiak, Ewa Zawadzka","doi":"10.5114/hpr/189699","DOIUrl":"10.5114/hpr/189699","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>As a result of the long-lasting COVID-19 pandemic, we have experienced numerous losses in psychological and economic domains. Research covering two years (2020-2021) of the pandemic suggests that at present, the period is also perceived in terms of gains. The factors affecting opinions about the losses and gains include personality traits, intensity of COVID-19 PTSD, age, and others. The study aimed to determine which aspects changed in life after two years of the pandemic, which were assessed as negative or positive, and which factors contributed to these opinions.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>An online survey was carried out and responses were received from an international sample of 418 adults. The following tools were used: the Ten Item Personality Inventory, Impact of Event Scale-Revised, and COVID-19 Sense of Life Changes Questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Conscientiousness and emotional stability were those personality traits which increased positive perceptions of the past years of the pandemic. The older age of respondents contributed to a more negative opinion about the changes in life caused by the pandemic.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The personality traits of conscientiousness and emotional stability and younger age may protect against negative perceptions of the two-year period of the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"13 2","pages":"178-190"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12140153/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-08-19eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/187335
Ricardo P Campos, Isabel Vázquez, Estela Vilhena
{"title":"Psychological factors and health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia patients.","authors":"Ricardo P Campos, Isabel Vázquez, Estela Vilhena","doi":"10.5114/hpr/187335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/187335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Fibromyalgia (FM) has been associated with decreased health-related quality of life (HRQoL), which has been linked to psychological variables such as anxiety, depression, coping, and social support. This study aimed to simultaneously analyse the association of these variables with HRQoL in FM patients and explore their mediating role in the relationship between somatic symptoms and HRQoL.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>A cross-sectional sample of 134 FM patients (97% women) with no other rheumatologic diseases followed in specialized healthcare services completed self-report questionnaires to evaluate pain, fatigue, sleep, anxiety, depression, coping, social support, and HRQoL.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results indicated that FM patients experienced a negative impact on all dimensions of HRQoL, with anxiety primarily affecting the mental dimensions, and depression and social support affecting both physical and mental dimensions. Anxiety, depression, dysfunctional coping, and low social support were independent predictors of HRQoL and mediated the effect of somatic symptoms in the mental component of HRQoL.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>FM patients experience a negative impact on HRQoL, and anxiety, depression, coping and social support play an important role as independent predictors of this decrease, and as mediators of the effect of somatic symptoms in the mental dimensions of HRQoL. This underscores the importance of considering these psychological variables in the therapeutic approach to FM and suggests the need for interventions targeting anxiety, depression, dysfunctional coping, and low social support to improve HRQoL in FM patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"352-367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604161/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-08-13eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/187337
Stanisław K Czerwiński, Paweł A Atroszko, Roman Konarski
{"title":"Mental health of intellectually gifted individuals: investigating the nonlinearity of the relationship between intelligence and general mental health.","authors":"Stanisław K Czerwiński, Paweł A Atroszko, Roman Konarski","doi":"10.5114/hpr/187337","DOIUrl":"10.5114/hpr/187337","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Despite intelligence being generally related to better mental health, individuals with extremely high levels of intelligence (also often referred to as gifted) are frequently viewed to be socially maladjusted, emotionally unstable, and eccentric. Although this view has existed for decades, the scientific data on this subject are highly inconsistent and suffer from several methodological limitations.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>In this study, to test whether the relationship between general intelligence and general mental health is nonlinear in such a way that at extreme values of intelligence the relationship turns from positive to negative the data from eight waves of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) were used (<i>N</i> range from 2,870 to 7,984), with intelligence being assessed at age 10, and mental health being assessed with several different measures at ages 16, 26, 30, 34, 42, 46 and 50. Quadratic regression, as well as spline regression, which divides the dataset into intervals, creates a separate regression for each interval and then smooths out the breakpoints, was used for analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed that the nonlinear models generally fit the data better than the corresponding linear models.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>At high values of intelligence, individuals might begin to experience unique issues affecting their mental health, despite their mental health being at potentially the same or higher level than those with average intelligence. Intellectually gifted individuals have a large potential to have a positive impact on the functioning of the whole society. Recognizing and understanding their problems may prove to be of great importance.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"13 1","pages":"39-54"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11873881/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-06-24eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/187800
Alan R King, Sara K Kuhn, Stephanie Brezinski, Michael Jowkar, Kourtney Smith
{"title":"Self-reported health profiles of trauma victims with and without psychiatric histories.","authors":"Alan R King, Sara K Kuhn, Stephanie Brezinski, Michael Jowkar, Kourtney Smith","doi":"10.5114/hpr/187800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/187800","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study examined associations between self-reported trauma exposure and physical health status after control of variance associated with psychiatric disturbance. Physical and mental health diagnoses were examined among participants with and without histories of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>College (<i>n</i> = 2,320) and national (<i>n</i> = 663) respondents were surveyed to identify trauma histories defined using the primary DSM-5 diagnostic criterion for PTSD. Respondents also identified lifetime diagnoses for a range of medical and psychiatric conditions. They were also asked to provide a self-assessment of their own current physical health status using a ten-point scaling metric.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Support was found for all three hypotheses: (H1) Self-identified trauma was associated with higher prevalence rates for 16 of 18 medical diagnoses; (H2) PTSD diagnoses were associated with higher prevalence rates than trauma alone for 6 of 16 medical conditions; and (H3) Self-reported trauma was associated with higher prevalence rates for 7 of 18 medical conditions among respondents who denied psychiatric histories.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Trauma exposure both with and without co-occurring psychiatric illness was associated with substantially higher rates of self-reported physical illness. Practitioners and researchers should recognize the potential significance of self-identified trauma and the range of potential biosocial implications that may warrant monitoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"295-307"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604165/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-05-31eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/185302
Urszula Ziętalewicz, Kamilla Bargiel-Matusiewicz
{"title":"Model of quality of life in a group of people with chronic low back pain.","authors":"Urszula Ziętalewicz, Kamilla Bargiel-Matusiewicz","doi":"10.5114/hpr/185302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/185302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the leading causes of a reduction in the quality of life (QoL). Various methods effectively improve patients' performance and coping with their symptoms in the short term. The lack of focus on psychological factors, thus overlooking an important element of the holistic model, may result in the modest long-term improvement. The present study aimed to test the relationships between the variables in Wilson and Cleary's QoL model in a CLBP group and to compare them to a nonpain group.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>Data were obtained from 177 people with CLBP and 160 nonpain participants. We conducted a cross-sectional study in which a multi-module self-administered questionnaire examining biological factors, personality traits, personal values, body assessment, symptoms of depression and anxiety, functional status, general perception of health, life satisfaction, received social support, economic support, satisfaction of health care and sociodemographic factors was adopted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Multiple regression models were able to explain 48.4% of the variance of QoL in the CLBP group and 30.9% in the nonpain group. Statistically significant predictors in the CLBP model were the severity of anxiety, emotional stability, receiving social support, and general health assessment and emotional stability in the nonpain group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study has enabled an initial exploratory analysis of the Wilson and Cleary model in a CLBP group. The list of factors determining the QoL should be extended to include emotional stability, social and economic support. Further research is needed to explain the relationships between variables in the model.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"337-351"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604163/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-04-19eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/186231
Paulina Pawlicka, Wiktor Wróbel, Barbara Baranowska, Daria Macewicz, Michał Olech, Caroline J Hollins Martin, Colin R Martin
{"title":"Translation and validation of the Polish-language version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) and its relationship to the type of delivery and the baby's Apgar score.","authors":"Paulina Pawlicka, Wiktor Wróbel, Barbara Baranowska, Daria Macewicz, Michał Olech, Caroline J Hollins Martin, Colin R Martin","doi":"10.5114/hpr/186231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/186231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Maternal birth experience is being increasingly recognised as a key clinical outcome parameter. The Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) is a short self-report measure designed to assess birth experience. The current investigation sought to translate the BSS-R into Polish and validate this version of the BSS-R (PL-BSS-R).</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The BSS-R was translated into Polish by an expert panel using forward and backward translation. A complex within-subjects design with an embedded between-subjects component was used to determine the key psychometric characteristics of the PL-BSS-R. Two hundred ninety-four Polish-speaking women in Poland completed the follow-up component of the study where the PL-BSS-R was administered. The PL-BSS-R measurement properties were examined using confirmatory factor analysis, divergent, convergent validity analysis, internal consistency appraisal and investigation of known-groups discriminant characteristics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The PL-BSS-R was found to have generally very good measurement properties and to be equivalent to the original English-language version across key validity indices. The PL-BBS-R was found to be significantly correlated with neonatal physical health immediately postpartum and differed across delivery modes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The PL-BSS-R is a psychometrically robust measure of birth experience appropriate for clinical and research use within Poland. Important associations were noted between subjective maternal birth experience and objective measures of neonatal physical health, indicating a critically important future research direction.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"369-381"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604162/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health Psychology ReportPub Date : 2024-02-29eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5114/hpr/182931
Alicja Senejko, Ewa Gurba, Piotr Oleś, Mateusz Marek, Tomasz Franc, Krzysztof Gurba
{"title":"Do relationships with parents determine citizens' reactions to war trauma?","authors":"Alicja Senejko, Ewa Gurba, Piotr Oleś, Mateusz Marek, Tomasz Franc, Krzysztof Gurba","doi":"10.5114/hpr/182931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr/182931","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The article concerns the psychology of trauma: the intensity of the experienced threats and reactions to the trauma in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), defenses and post-traumatic growth (PTG) in Ukrainian immigrants in Poland. The issues of trauma psychology were studied in connection with the relationships with parents.</p><p><strong>Participants and procedure: </strong>The methods used mainly concerned the specifics of experiencing strong threats (trauma) and responding to them (PCL-5 questionnaire, Psycho-Social and Psychic Defenses Questionnaire, Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory), determination of closeness to parents (Scale of Closeness to Biological Parents) and secure and non-secure attachment style (Attachment Style Questionnaire). The subjects were 178 people (including 147 women and 31 men), citizens of Ukraine, who arrived in Poland after the outbreak of war on February 24, 2022, and at the time of the study were living in and around Krakow, Wroclaw, Lublin, or Warsaw. The mean age of the subjects was 38 years (<i>SD</i> = 12.57).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results of the study indicate that non-secure attachment styles (anxious-avoidant and anxious-ambivalent), along with frustration of the need for competence and intensity of threats, are predictors of PTSD and non-constructive defenses. In contrast, a secure attachment style, along with frustration of the need for competence and intensity of threats, is a predictor of constructive defenses, while a secure attachment style is a predictor of PTG. Statistical analyses show that closeness to the mother is not significantly associated with any of the explained variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The accumulation of risks associated with war trauma and the necessity to cope with them are strongly associated with the ongoing war. Attachment styles support or hinder the process of adaptation. The absence of closeness to the mother among the predictors in the models tested represents the most intriguing result, to be confirmed in further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":44293,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology Report","volume":"12 4","pages":"308-321"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604164/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}