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Appetitive Aggression as a Resilience Factor against Trauma Disorders Appetitive Aggression and PTSD in German World War II Veterans

AppetitiveAggressionasaResilienceFactoragainst TraumaDisorders:AppetitiveAggressionandPTSDin GermanWorldWarIIVeterans RolandWeierstall*,SinaHuth,JasminKnecht,CorinaNandi,ThomasElbert DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofKonstanz,Konstanz,Germany Abstract Background: Repeated exposure to traumatic stressors such as combat results in chronic symptoms of PTSD. However, previousfindingssuggestthatformersoldierswhoreportcombat-relatedaggressiontobeappetitivearemoreresilientto develop PTSD. Appetitive Aggression should therefore prevent widespread mental suffering in perpetrators of severe atrocitiesevenafterdecades. MethodsandFindings:Totestthelong-termrelationshipbetweentrauma-relatedillnessandattractiontoaggression,we surveyedasampleof51GermanmaleWorld-WarIIveterans(age:M=86.7,SD=2.8).War-relatedappetitiveaggressionwas assessedwiththeAppetitiveAggressionScale(AAS).Current-andlifetimePTSDsymptomswereassessedwiththePSS-I.In alinearregressionanalysisaccountingfor31%ofthevariancewefoundthatveteransthatscorehigherontheAASshow lower PSS-I symptom severity scores across their whole post-war lifetime (b=2 .31,p=.014). The effect size andpower weresufficient(f2=0.51,(1-b)=.99).ThesamewastrueforcurrentPTSD(b=2.27,p =.030). Conclusions:AppetitiveAggressionappearstobearesiliencefactorfornegativelong-termeffectsofcombatexperiences inperpetratorsofviolence.Thisresulthaspracticalrelevanceforpreventingtrauma-relatedmentalsufferinginPeaceCorps andfordesigningadequatehomecomingreceptionforveterans. Citation:WeierstallR,HuthS,KnechtJ,NandiC,ElbertT(2012)AppetitiveAggressionasaResilienceFactoragainstTraumaDisorders:AppetitiveAggressionand PTSDinGermanWorldWarIIVeterans.PLoSONE7(12):e50891.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050891 Editor:LindaChao,UniversityofCalifornia,SanFrancisco,UnitedStatesofAmerica ReceivedAugust29,2012;AcceptedOctober25,2012;PublishedDecember12,2012 Copyright: ? 2012 Weierstall et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribut