Sociology Study )SSN ʹͳͷͻ‐ͷͷʹ͸ March ʹͲͳ͵, Volume ͵, Number ͵, ʹͲ͹‐ʹʹͶ Intergroup Evaluation as an Indicator of Emotional Elaboration of Collective Traumas in National Historical Narratives István Csertő a , János László b Abstract )n a longitudinal content analytical study, the authors explored intergroup evaluation patterns in (ungarian history school‐book narratives about the so‐called DzTrianon Peace Treatydz in ͳͻʹͲ which had approved the detachment of ʹ/͵ of (ungary’s territory by victorious countries of the First World War. The event has meant a major national trauma that has not been elaborated to date. The study aimed to find evaluation patterns in temporally changing narrative constructions which were diagnostic to the process of emotional elaboration of the trauma. School‐books released between ͳͻʹͲ and ʹͲͲͲ were included in the study, by a ͳͲ‐year sampling method. Analysis was performed by NARRCAT ȋNarrative Categorial Content Analytical ToolȌ, a computerized tool for narrative psychological content analysis, which is capable for identifying complex linguistic structures of psychological relevance in large databases of narratives. Four different evaluation patterns emerged in the narratives which roughly correspond to four different historical eras in (ungary. Results show that the aggressor‐victim relation between the former Entente powers and (ungary has remained a part of the narrative representation of the treaty, reflecting the identity state of collective victimhood. Keywords Scientific narrative psychology, history, national identity, collective trauma, psychological content analysis In the present study, the Hungarian national identity is examined through the collective memory processes of a trauma of the Hungarian nation as it is reflected in historical narratives. Hungarian people were affected by several collective traumas during the twentieth century. Among these traumatic events, the most serious one for many Hungarians is the so-called “Trianon Peace Treaty” 1 . In this study, the authors examine the temporal tendencies of self-evaluation and intergroup evaluation in secondary school history textbook narratives about the treaty of Trianon, in order to obtain data on the elaboration processes which the trauma of the national identity underwent during nearly a century that has passed since then. Within psychology, the concept of trauma was first studied in details in a comprehensive psychoanalytic framework by Sigmund Freud. In a psychoanalytic approach, psychological trauma is an emotional shock that substantially affects the concerned individual’s psychic integrity. Freud’s daughter, Anna Freud (1937) argued in her work on a University of Pécs, (ungary b (ungarian Academy of Sciences, (ungary Correspondent Author: )stván Csertő, )nstitute of Psychology, University of Pécs, (ungary, (‐͹͸ʹͶ Pécs, )fjúság útja ͸ E‐mail: csertopi@gmail.com DAVID PUBLISHING D