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Exploring Long-Term Impact Of Mass Trauma On Physical Health, Coping, And Meaning: An Examination Of The Ottoman Turkish Genocide Of The Armenians, Ani Kalayjian, Nicole Moore, Chris Aberson

Ani Kalayjian

Throughout the 20th century, genocide has claimed many lives across the world. Government genocidal policies alone have resulted in over 210 million deaths. Approximately nine decades ago, under the cover of World War I, Turkish armed forces moved to exterminate Turkey’s Armenian population. The present study focuses on how Armenian survivors dealt with the Genocide, what gave them the strength to cope, their level of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the extent of physical symptomatology, and meanings associated with the trauma, as manifested in selected aspects of survival accounts from 16 Armenian Americans (born before 1917) who had witnessed the Ottoman …