Psychological characteristics of boys and young men whose mothers suffered the vital stress under exposure to a high risk of terrorist threat

Abstract

The article analyses the peculiarities of psychological status among boys in the Republic of Dagestan mothers, which period before pregnancy experienced a high risk of a terrorist threat during the occupation by militants in September 1999. They revealed that mild depression and masked depression in boys of mothers, who experienced psychological trauma associated with life-threatening was defined, is much more frequently than in the group of boys whose mothers have not experienced the vital stress. In both groups of cases of severe depression was not observed. Boys, whose mothers are in a period before pregnancy experienced mental trauma associated with life-threatening, characterized by a high level of neuroticism combined with introversion. They demonstrate a lack of confidence, emotional instability, and vulnerability combined with resentment and suspicion, at the same time at the age of 13 to 14 years, these boys are less aggressive than peers in the control group. They have masked depression much more often than boys of the control group, coldness, formality in contacts; they are less interested in the life of the school community, have a destructive position in a conflict, are more exposed to affective experiences, more labile and emotional. Typical treats for them are unjustified resentment, emotional excitability, irritability, high neurotic fatigue, moodiness, impulsivity, anxiety, distractibility, lack of concentration, frustrations and high level of anxiety.

Keywords

terrorist attack / terrorist threat / psychosocial trauma / adolescent health / psychological status / offspring the vital stress / children affected

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