Citation

Celebi Oncu E, Metindogan Wise A. Child Dev. 2010; 81(4): 1161-1175.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01460.x

PMID

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Abstract

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.