Effects of Psychological Distress and Exposure to Terror-Related Stress on the Self in Emerging Adulthood

We compared vulnerability and scarring models linking self-concept and psychological distress in young adulthood. Whereas the vulnerability model posits self-concept pathology leading to psychological distress, the prediction of the scarring model is inverse. We also examined the moderating role of exposure to missile attacks. Israeli young adults (N = 124), who had participated in a previous study (Schiller et al. Self and Identity...