The acute psychological impact on survivors following a train accident

✍ Scribed by Rolf Hagströum

• Book ID: 102926851
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 620 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490080303

✦ Synopsis

Sixty-six passengers surviving a collision of two trains were investigated concerning relevant background data, degree of personal injury, qerience of a threat to life, symptoms and problems immediately afrer the accident, and thoughts about difficulty in coping. The most obvious impact on the survivors was the experience of being close to death. One result of this was that they developed a new coping strategy to minimize emotional pain. Some survivors