Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among Polyvictimized Women in the Colombian Armed Conflict: The Mediating Role of Social Acknowledgment

González‐Castro, José Luis; Landa, Silvia Ubillos; Puente-Martínez, Alicia; Leiva, Marcela Gracia; Rodríguez, Gina Arias; Páez‐Rovira, Darío

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.741917

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“…58,59 Contrary to prior research, this study did not document a significant association between ethnopolitical problems and stress markers (eg, Refs. 35,60). This suggests that other factors, such as household stressors, might play a larger role in determining how participants perceive and respond to stress.…”

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Midlife symptoms and household stress are associated with fingernail cortisol

Rulu,

Bertone-Johnson,

Kamilar

et al. 2024

Menopause

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Objective This study investigates menopausal symptoms, household stressors, and ethnopolitical problems in relation to stress markers, including chronic stress measured by fingernail cortisol, perceived stress measured by the Perceived Stress Scale, and acute stress measured by blood pressure. Methods Data from 151 women aged 40 to 55 years were collected from four regions in Nagaland, India, using opportunity sampling. A structured questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic and lifestyle variables. Symptoms were grouped into emotional instability, vasosomatic symptoms, mood disturbances, and aches and pains using principal component analysis in a previous study, and stress markers included fingernail cortisol, perceived stress, and blood pressure. Community-level, household-level, and midlife symptoms were included to ascertain stressors from different sources. Results Our results revealed a significant positive association between a composite measure of emotional instability and stress assessed by fingernail cortisol (β = 0.46, P < 0.001). In addition, there was a positive association between mood disturbances and fingernail cortisol (β = 0.24, P < 0.05). This relationship persisted after controlling for body mass index, socioeconomic status, and menopausal status. In addition, household problems were positively associated with fingernail cortisol (β = 0.25, P = 0.01). Conclusions These findings highlight the potential health impacts of the psychosocial stress response associated with domestic stressors such as financial strain and concerns about children and health.

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Midlife symptoms and household stress are associated with fingernail cortisol

Rulu,

Bertone-Johnson,

Kamilar

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Menopause

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“…Most literature on women in war zones has referred to them as victims rather than active agents (e.g., González-Castro et al, 2021 ). When it comes to considering women as combat soldiers, the literature still lags behind.…”

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“Caught in the crossfire” – women veterans’ testimonies regarding excessively violent acts committed in combat zones

HaCohen,

Amir

2024

Front. Psychol.

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As women in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are increasingly placed in supportive and combat roles in active war zones, they routinely encounter and participate in violent acts. This study focusses on the centrality of gendered inequality and oppression as a factor that shapes not only women’s experience in the military but also their responses in cases of excessive violence. The goal of this study was to explore the ways women veterans of combat or combat-support units conceptualize their stance regarding violent acts which they either committed or witnessed in war zones. Using a qualitative approach, we analyzed the retrospective testimonies of 58 Israeli women veterans from the archives of an NGO that documents veteran combatants exposure to excessive violence. Most women explained their violent acts as inherent to the military system and culture, which in our analysis was categorized as examples of either internalized gender oppression or as identification with the aggressor. A smaller number of women described their attempts to protest, as they took a moral stance rooted in a feminine perspective. The three explanations revealed through the analysis of the testimonies reflect the inner tension experienced by many women in the military, as they navigate between two extreme positions, either as victims of male dominance, or as aggressors that are part of a powerful military system. In this study, gendered inequality provides a framework for analyzing the data. Thus, this study contributes to the theoretical knowledge and methodological approaches concerning violent situations in combat areas, focusing on the various ways in which women veterans subjectively and retroactively conceptualize their participation in and responses to violent acts.

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“This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours”: Obstacles to Confronting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Kreft

2022

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State &Amp; Society

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Prior research has established that conflict-related sexual violence against women is anchored in patriarchal norms and practices that assert gendered hierarchies. What remains relatively underresearched, however, is how patriarchal structures shape individual, social, and institutional responses to conflict-related sexual violence and its victims. This article sets out to shed light on this question, identifying different social and institutional processes that impede efforts to confront conflict-related sexual violence. The analysis of interviews with Colombian civil society activists illustrates how patriarchal norms and practices normalize sexual violence in society, but also ostracize, stigmatize, and ultimately seek to silence its victims. This risks obliterating conflict-related sexual violence from the political map and severely undermines the pursuit of justice. Power imbalances disadvantaging and further marginalizing the victims permeate these processes. Civil society organizations play an important role in reclaiming power for the victims, by overcoming disabling silences, making sexual violence visible, and confronting harmful patriarchal practices.

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Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among Polyvictimized Women in the Colombian Armed Conflict: The Mediating Role of Social Acknowledgment

Cited by 3 publications

References 49 publications

Midlife symptoms and household stress are associated with fingernail cortisol

Midlife symptoms and household stress are associated with fingernail cortisol

“Caught in the crossfire” – women veterans’ testimonies regarding excessively violent acts committed in combat zones

“This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours”: Obstacles to Confronting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

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