Defensive and affective-emotional reactions to war: The Abkhazian war as reflected in people's subjective reactions

Differences in defensive and affective-emotional reactions of 108 male Georgian subjects who had been confronted with the consequences of the Abkhazian war in different ways (nonwounded soldiers, wounded soldiers, and civilian controls) were significant between groups on all defense scales and four of the 12 Gottschalk-Gleser scales. The results are discussed from a perspective with war forming for all three groups an important life event which differentially determined their psychological reactions.