Extent of victimization, traumatic stress symptoms, and adjustment of terrorist assault survivors: A long-term follow-up
✍ Scribed by Helena Syna Desivilya; Reuven Gal; Ofra Ayalon
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 471 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-9867
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✦ Synopsis
This paper examines the long-term impact of a terrorist attack on adolescents; thk attack involved the seizure of over one hundred hostages, most of them adolescents, and the focus here is on the relationships between the extent of victimization and long-term outcomes. The study was based on in-depth interviews and a battery of questionnaires administered to the survivors 17 years after the event. The findings indicated that very intense victimization, particular& in t e r n of physical injruy, had the strongest effect on long-term adjustment in comparison to moderate or minimal victimuation in the same trauma.