The aim of this research was to analyze the emotional profile of women victims of domestic violence comparing it with the emotional profile of women who did not experience domestic violence. It was analyzed totally 283 women, while 215 of them were victims of domestic violence and 68 who did not experience domestic violence. To identify domestic violence used was the modified inventory of domestic violence, which consisted of three parts: inventory of psychological, physical and sexual abuse. In both groups of women applied was the Profile index of emotion – Pluchik test. Collected were also basic socio-demographic data. The average age of women was 43.27±9.69 years and most of the women (156 or 55%) were married. According to the level of education most of the women had a high school degree (111 or 39.2%), and related to the employment 164 or 58.0% were unemployed. Among the abused, 107 (50.7%) experienced a combination of various forms of domestic violence. Using nonparametric tests (Median and Kruskal-Wallis test) it has shown that women victims of domestic violence had significantly lower values in dimension of reproduction (P<0.001), incorporation (P<0.001) and BIAS (P<0.001), and significantly higher values in dimension of depression (P<0.001), opposition (P=0.029) and aggressiveness (P=0.002). According to the results obtained by this research can be concluded that women victims of domestic violence had a lower level of sociability and trust in people, lower need to be socially accepted and increased values of dimension of fear, sadness, rejection and aggressiveness

AIM To assess the psychological health of war-traumatized children in different foster settings and compare them with children living with one or both parents, 7 years after the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. METHOD The study was carried out in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in March 2002. We assessed 186 (93 girls and 93 boys) elementary school children aged 12.7-/+1.8 years for war trauma, presence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression. There were 38 (14 girls) children from the government orphanage, 48 (24 girls) children from the non-governmental organization (NGO) SOS Children's Village, 50 (24 girls) children who lost a parent in the war but lived with the surviving parent, and 50 (31 girls) children who lived with both parents. For data collection, we used Children's Posttraumatic Stress Reaction Index and Children's Depression Inventory. Basic sociodemographic data were also collected. RESULTS Of 186 children, 90 (48.4%) had been forced into refuge because of the war. Loss of a family member was most frequent among children in the SOS Children's Village, who also experienced the highest number of other types of trauma. PTSD was present in 51.6% of 186 children, with the highest prevalence among children in the SOS Children's Village (39/48). PTSD prevalence was higher among children who lost a parent but lived with the surviving parent (29/50) then among children in the orphanage (15/38) or children living with both parents (13/50) (chi(2)(3)=33.075, P<0.001). Depression was present in 42 of 186 (22.6%) children, but with no statistical difference among the groups (chi(2)(3)=6.337, P=0.096). The prevalence of PTSD and depression was similar in boys and girls. Loss of a parent was associated with higher frequency of PTSD and depression. The loss of both parents was associated with high prevalence of PTSD, but not depression. Prevalence of PTSD was positively correlated with the prevalence of depression (Spearman's rho=0.188; P=0.01). CONCLUSIONS All children experienced war trauma and many had psychological consequences. The highest prevalence of PTSD, often comorbid with depression, was found among children who lost one or both parents. The children with the lowest rate of psychological disturbances were those living with both parents.