Abstract
The meaning of threatening events: A questionnaire on assigning meaning after experiences of war and violence The Meaning of War Scale has been developed to examine cognitive assumptions related to threatening experiences specific to war or violence. To obtain the psychometric properties of this new scale, questionnaires filled out by two different samples have been analyzed: 1. refugees from Bosnia Herzegovina living in the Netherlands (N=365), and 2. Dutch veterans sent to different war and peacekeeping missions (N=1561). Factor analysis and construct validity were used to examine psychometric qualities of the Meaning of War Scale. Three out of five sub-scales showed good reliability and validity: distrust, personal growth and religious adherence. Moreover, these scales have been found to be related to stress responses and dispositional features of the cognitive adaptation process to war-related experiences.
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