Cumulative effects of the Gulf oil spill and other disasters on mental health among reproductive-aged women: The Gulf Resilience on Women’s Health study.
Author(s) -
Emily W. Harville,
Arti Shankar,
Christine Dunkel Schetter,
Maureen Y. Lichtveld
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
psychological trauma theory research practice and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.059
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1942-9681
pISSN - 1942-969X
DOI - 10.1037/tra0000345
Subject(s) - oil spill , mental health , resilience (materials science) , psychological resilience , environmental health , psychology , environmental science , medicine , psychiatry , environmental protection , social psychology , physics , thermodynamics
To test whether effects of multiple (up to 5) disasters on mental health responses were cumulative (additive effects), or whether an earlier disaster produced sensitization (higher) or habituation (lower) responses to a later one.
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