Resilience and Hardiness in Repatriated Vietnam-Era Prisoners of War

Abstract

To date there has been no direct measurement of the resilience of Vietnam era repatriated Prisoners of War (RPWs). Previous research conducted by the RE Mitchell Center for Prisoner of War Studies (REMC) used presence or absence of post-repatriation psychiatric illness as a proxy measure of resilience, but did not administer any specific scales to directly measure this construct. The purpose of this brief study was to directly measure psychological resilience in a group of Vietnam era RPWs and identify those RPWs who self-identify as resilient.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 2013
Accession Number
ADA585207

Entities

People

  • Francine Segovia
  • Jeffrey L. Moore
  • Steven E. Linnville

Organizations

  • Robert E. Mitchell Center for Prisoner of War Studies

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Body Weight
  • Consistency
  • Factor Analysis
  • Health
  • Measurement
  • Mental Health
  • New York
  • Personality
  • Prisoners
  • Prisoners Of War
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Ratings
  • Resilience
  • Social Psychology
  • Standards
  • Surveys

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Criminal Law
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.