PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Lost Angeles, Risk Perception
14 Apr 2013
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Lives events and social support: concurrent and prospective impact on children s persistent posttraumatic stress symptoms. Investigate the in uence of hurricane exposure, stressors occurring during the hurricane and recovery period, and social support on children s posttraumatic stress. Selective - participants were children enrolled in the four elementary schools in. Charlotte county where the greatest path of destruction from hurricane charley occurred. Secondary, the children were not diagnosed with pts before the study. Risk = perception of life threat, loss and disruption, major life events, being younger, being a girl, being an ethnic minority. Measures of data collection (what is measured, # of times, and how) The hurricane related traumatic experiences-revised assessed children s disaster exposure and speci c hurricane-related stressors. It contained 3 sections: during the hurricane, after the hurricane and since the hurricane. Assessed at 2 times, 9 months post disaster and 21 months post disaster.
