Lightning-strike disaster : effects on children's fears and worries.

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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 1984Description: 9 pDDC classification:

155.935083 20

Subject: This article compares the fears of victims of a lightning strike with matched control children drawn from a normative study of the Louisville Fear Survey for Children (LSFC). Fear reports were obtained from both the children and their mothers. Additionally, measures of the children's sleep disturbance and somatic complaints were obtained from their mothers, and the interviewer rated each child in the lightning sample for extent of emotional upset caused by the disaster. Differences between the lightning and control samples were most pronounced for child-reported fears, and the generalisation gradient was fairly consistent with expectations from classical conditioning theory. Child-reported fears showed a number of substantial relations with mother-reported sleep and somatic problems and with interviewer-rated emotional upset. Results are discussed in terms of the mental health effects of disasters and the ethical issues inherent in such research

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Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	155.935083 LIG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005740510

Bibliography: p. 1037-1038

Reprinted from Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; 1984; Vol. 52, no. 6; p. 1028-1031, 1035-1038

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This article compares the fears of victims of a lightning strike with matched control children drawn from a normative study of the Louisville Fear Survey for Children (LSFC). Fear reports were obtained from both the children and their mothers. Additionally, measures of the children's sleep disturbance and somatic complaints were obtained from their mothers, and the interviewer rated each child in the lightning sample for extent of emotional upset caused by the disaster. Differences between the lightning and control samples were most pronounced for child-reported fears, and the generalisation gradient was fairly consistent with expectations from classical conditioning theory. Child-reported fears showed a number of substantial relations with mother-reported sleep and somatic problems and with interviewer-rated emotional upset. Results are discussed in terms of the mental health effects of disasters and the ethical issues inherent in such research

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