The relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of Croatian war veterans
Introduction: Family dysfunction and inability to adequately respond to parental demands of veterans due to active participation in war and the presence of war-related PTSD has been linked to numerous psychosocial and behavior problems of their offspring. The aim of this study was to examine the rel...
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| description | Introduction: Family dysfunction and inability to adequately respond to parental demands of veterans due to active participation in war and the presence of war-related PTSD has been linked to numerous psychosocial and behavior problems of their offspring. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between parental war status, and certain aspects of socioemotional development of their children, i.e. emotional competence, and attachment styles.
Methods: Our sample consisted of 141 participants (female: 51.1%, mean age: 25.78), of which 53 were offspring of veterans with PTSD, 39 were offspring of veterans without PTSD, and 49 came from non-veteran families. A structured questionnaire consisted of sociodemographic questions, The Emotional Competence Questionnaire, The Revised Adult Attachment Scale, and Inadequate parental behavior questionnaire.
Results: Children of war veterans exhibited greater difficulties in understanding, expressing, and regulating their own emotions in comparison to children of non-veterans. Higher presence of anxious attachment style, lower levels of close and dependent style, and more frequent inadequate parental behavior during childhood were found in offspring of veterans with war-related PTSD.
Discussion: The offspring of war veterans showed lower emotional competence and a more pronounced anxious attachment style. These findings emphasize the importance of developing interventions and programs for offspring of war veterans that aim to improve their ability to establish close relationships and regulate emotions adequately. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-98d3d1c9b67d43f9a76ae122d270e9ef2025-01-24T11:00:40ZengEdizioni FSJournal of Health and Social Sciences2499-22402499-58862024-12-0194509519The relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of Croatian war veteransLovorka BRAJKOVIĆ0Dora KORAĆ1Dajana ALIĆ2Vanja KOPILAŠ3Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Croatian Studies, Zagreb, Croatia. E-mail: lbrajkov1@fhs.unizg.hrDepartment of Psychology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Croatian Studies, Zagreb, Croatia. E-mail: dkorac@fhs.unizg.hrDepartment of Psychology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Croatian Studies, Zagreb, Croatia. E-mail: dajanaa92@gmail.comDepartment of Psychology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Croatian Studies, Zagreb, Croatia. E-mail: vkopilas@fhs.unizg.hrIntroduction: Family dysfunction and inability to adequately respond to parental demands of veterans due to active participation in war and the presence of war-related PTSD has been linked to numerous psychosocial and behavior problems of their offspring. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between parental war status, and certain aspects of socioemotional development of their children, i.e. emotional competence, and attachment styles. Methods: Our sample consisted of 141 participants (female: 51.1%, mean age: 25.78), of which 53 were offspring of veterans with PTSD, 39 were offspring of veterans without PTSD, and 49 came from non-veteran families. A structured questionnaire consisted of sociodemographic questions, The Emotional Competence Questionnaire, The Revised Adult Attachment Scale, and Inadequate parental behavior questionnaire. Results: Children of war veterans exhibited greater difficulties in understanding, expressing, and regulating their own emotions in comparison to children of non-veterans. Higher presence of anxious attachment style, lower levels of close and dependent style, and more frequent inadequate parental behavior during childhood were found in offspring of veterans with war-related PTSD. Discussion: The offspring of war veterans showed lower emotional competence and a more pronounced anxious attachment style. These findings emphasize the importance of developing interventions and programs for offspring of war veterans that aim to improve their ability to establish close relationships and regulate emotions adequately. https://journalhss.com/wp-content/uploads/10.192042024THRL4.pdfattachment stylesemotional competenceoffspringparental war-statusptsd |
| spellingShingle | Lovorka BRAJKOVIĆ Dora KORAĆ Dajana ALIĆ Vanja KOPILAŠ The relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of Croatian war veterans Journal of Health and Social Sciences attachment styles emotional competence offspring parental war-status ptsd |
| title | The relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of Croatian war veterans |
| title_full | The relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of Croatian war veterans |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of Croatian war veterans |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of Croatian war veterans |
| title_short | The relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of Croatian war veterans |
| title_sort | relationship between parental war status and socioemotional functioning of offspring of croatian war veterans |
| topic | attachment styles emotional competence offspring parental war-status ptsd |
| url | https://journalhss.com/wp-content/uploads/10.192042024THRL4.pdf |
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