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Positive impact of prior military combat exposure on Terrorism Prevention work: Inoculation to stress

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International Journal of Stress Management

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Forty-four Israeli security agents employed by the Israeli Government Terrorism Prevention Agency providing security services for the national Israeli airlines and the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles were administered the Subjective Stress Experience Scale (SSES). This scale measures stress at terrorism-prevention work, past stress during combat exposure, and subjects’ most stressful life events. Results support the hypothesis that terrorism prevention personnel who are also combat veterans appraise their work as less stressful than their noncombat exposed counterparts. Combat veterans also rated their combat experience as significantly more stressful than prevention team member’s other stressful life events. Subjects presented a uniform stress- inoculation effect but, combat veterans of the prevention team were more stress-inoculated than their noncombat exposed counterparts.

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Vaisman-Tzachor, R. Positive impact of prior military combat exposure on Terrorism Prevention work: Inoculation to stress. Int J Stress Manage 4, 29–45 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02766071

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