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Extent of victimization, traumatic stress symptoms, and adjustment of terrorist assault survivors: A long‐term follow‐up
Author(s) -
Desivilya Helena Syna,
Gal Reuven,
Ayalon Ofra
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.2490090416
Subject(s) - injury prevention , psychology , suicide prevention , poison control , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , term (time) , terrorism , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , medical emergency , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , archaeology , history
This paper examines the long‐term impact of a terrorist attack on adolescents; this 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, particularly in terms of physical injury, had the strongest effect on long‐term adjustment in comparison to moderate or minimal victimization in the same trauma.