Article Sidebar
Published:
Feb 19, 2024Keywords:
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Privacy and Copyright
The names and email addresses entered on The JID website or other documents are used exclusively for the stated purposes of The JID and are not to be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and grant The JID the right of first publication with the work six (6) weeks after publication. Simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and publication The JID.
b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the nonexclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after publication with The JID as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
d. Although authors (or their institutions) retain copyright of their work, they are required to complete and sign a License to Publish that clearly specifies the rights required by The JID and those rights that are retained by authors or their institutions.
e. Authors submitting material to The JID for publication must clear all third-party
intellectual property rights and obtain formal permission from their respective institutions,
where necessary. Authors must also warrant that their work:
- has not been published before;
- is not presently being considered for publication elsewhere;
- does not violate any intellectual property rights of any person or entity;
- does not contain any subject matter that contravenes any laws (including defamatory
material and misleading and deceptive material); and
- meets ethical research standards.
A scanned copy of the License to Publish should be emailed to admin [at]
journalofinternaldisplacement [dot] org with the final manuscript or returned.
Main Article Content
Measuring IDPS’ psycho-emotional responses to war
Abstract
This paper reports on psycho-emotional responses of different groups of internally displace persons (“IDPs”) to the 2008 Russian-Georgian War, identifying a need for differential rehabilitation strategies. A total of 89 IDPs were analyzed using the Gottschalk-Gleser Method, which qualifies and quantifies psychological states through content analysis of speech. Interviews were taken individually, and interviewers strictly followed the standard and specific Gottschalk-Gleser instructions for the Anxiety, Hostility and Hope scales. The narratives with significant differences were more closely analyzed in order to cull a greater sense of personal experience. Results showed statistically significant differences between some of the pairs of groups. Group II (Recent IDPs) showed higher death anxiety compared to the other groups. With more current exposure to hostile fighting in an active war zone, IDPs from Groups II (Recent IDPs) and III (Double IDPs) had higher Overt Hostility compared to Group I (Abkhazian IDPs). IDPs from Group I (Abkhazian IDPs) developed Hope as a defense mechanism in coping with their long-lasting problems to a greater degree than the two other groups. Gender differences are also discussed. Besides differential findings in the geographic areas of study that may support different remedial strategies, the Gottschalk-Gleser Method itself can be considered as an easy instrument to use in measuring the psycho-emotional reactions of affected individuals, facilitating adequate and timely intervention.
