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The British Journal of Psychiatry (2007) 191: 146-149. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.022038
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Social identification and post-traumatic stress symptoms in post-conflict Northern Ireland{dagger}

ORLA T. MULDOON, RGN, BSSc, PhD, PGCUT, CPsychol and CIARA DOWNES, BSc, PhD

School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Correspondence: Dr Orla Muldoon, Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Email: orla.muldoon{at}ul.ie

Declaration of interest None. Funding detailed in Acknowledgements.

{dagger} The correspondence that accompanied this paper’s progress through peer-review is available as a supplement to the online version of this paper.

Background Understanding of the psychological impact of politically motivated violence is poor.

Aims To examine the prevalence of post-traumatic symptoms subsequentto the ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland.

Method A telephone survey of 3000 adults, representative of the population in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Irish Republic, examined exposure to political violence, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and national identity.

Results Ten per cent of respondents had symptoms suggestive of clinical PTSD. These people were most likely to come from low-income groups, rate national identity as relatively unimportant and have higher overall experience of the ‘troubles’than other respondents.

Conclusions Direct experience of violence and poverty increase the risk of PTSD, whereas strong national identification appears to reduce this risk.


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