39. Punamäki, R. Impact of Political Change on the Psychological Stress Process Among West Bank Palestinian Women. Medicine and War 1990; 6, 3: 169-181.

A study of 40 Palestinian women aimed at evaluating the effect of the political changes resulting from the Lebanon war on the psychological stress process of Palestinian women and to assess the role of personal and political factors in predicting the stress process in Palestinian women.

Results indicate that Palestinian women were more helpless in their personal life after the war and that they perceived their social lives as being more dangerous and threatening. The results of the study also indicate that Palestinian women believed themselves to be more in control vis-à-vis the Palestinian national fate as they became more subjected to political h.