Citation

Eshel Y, Majdoob H. Community Ment. Health J. 2014; 50(8): 997-1003.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, 31905, Haifa, Israel, yeshel@psy.haifa.ac.il.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10597-014-9734-7

PMID

24825510

Abstract

This study investigated the direct and indirect effects of demographic predictors on level of resilience following a potentially traumatic event. We hypothesized that the direct effects of three variables (exposure to fire hazards, gender, and economic condition) on resilience following a fire disaster would be mediated by the proportion of posttraumatic recovery to post-fire distress symptoms. The sample consisted of 234 Israeli Druze youth whose hometown was endangered and damaged by the Mount Carmel fire disaster in December 2010.

RESULTS partially supported the research hypotheses.

Language: en