van IJzendoorn, M. H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2003). Journal of Traumatic Stress, 16(5), 459–469.
Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
The strongest evidence against a general transmission of trauma to the second generation. For QUESTION-297.
Read in its place
The work cannot be read here, so the record holds it at second hand.
Fridman (2011), a thesis supervised by the meta-analysis’s three authors, restates it several times. It reports 32 samples with 4,418 children of survivors, and no evidence of secondary traumatization in studies with non-select recruitment and non-clinical samples. It reports that transmission appeared in clinical samples, under severe stressors such as combat or cancer, and in weaker designs on convenience samples. It gives the paper’s explanations: a stress-diathesis model, social support in Israel, and basic trust formed before the war. Missing still: any effect size, the outcome domains, the moderator tests that separate clinical from non-clinical and select from non-select samples, the list of studies, and any test of publication bias.