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The Effects of the 1999 Turkish Earthquake on Young Children: Analyzing Traumatized Children’s Completion of Short Stories
Author(s) -
Celebi Oncu Elif,
Metindogan Wise Aysegul
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01460.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , turkish , pediatrics , clinical psychology , medicine , linguistics , philosophy
The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine whether projective techniques could identify long‐term consequences among children stemming from exposure to a traumatic event. The first group of children ( n = 53; 26 female, 27 male) experienced 2 major earthquakes at age 7, 3 months apart, in Turkey, while a similarly matched control group ( n = 50; 25 female, 25 male) did not. Both groups of children (current age: 9) completed a series of short stories related to disastrous events. Results indicated that the traumatized group evinced a range of trauma‐related symptoms 2 years after experiencing the earthquakes.