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March 20, 2009Depression and Anxiety408 citations

Psychological resilience and postdeployment social support protect against traumatic stress and depressive symptoms in soldiers returning from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom

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RPRobert H. PietrzakDJDouglas C. JohnsonMGMarc B. Goldstein

Key Points

  • To determine whether psychological resilience and postdeployment social support protect against traumatic stress and depressive symptoms in veterans returning from combat deployments.
  • Assessed military personnel returning from Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraqi Freedom (OIF).
  • Evaluated measures of psychological resilience, postdeployment social support networks, traumatic stress symptoms, and depression severity.
  • Greater psychological resilience is associated with a lower severity of traumatic stress and depressive symptoms.
  • Higher levels of postdeployment social support significantly buffer against combat-related psychological distress.

Abstract

These results suggest that interventions to bolster psychological resilience and postdeployment social support may help reduce the severity of traumatic stress and depressive symptoms in OEF/OIF veterans.

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Pietrzak et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/697bc95e5adea3e7954c0e6fhttps://doi.org/10.1002/da.20558
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