Journal article
Individual and collective exposure to political violence: Palestinian adolescents coping with conflict
Abstract
BACKGROUND: We conducted a survey of Palestinian adolescents in school. We hypothesized that collective and individual exposures to violence would both negatively affect adolescents' mental health. We also anticipated that the negative effect of collective exposures on mental health would be less than that of individual exposures. Our analysis was designed to test these hypotheses.
METHODS: A representative sample of 3415 students of 10th and …
Authors
Giacaman R; Shannon HS; Saab H; Arya N; Boyce W
Journal
European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 361–368
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
August 2007
DOI
10.1093/eurpub/ckl260
ISSN
1101-1262