Citation

Shahar G, Henrich CC. J. Fam. Psychol. 2015; 30(1): 163-168.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/fam0000179

PMID

26690329

Abstract

The authors compared the protective effects of 3 sources of perceived social support-from family members, friends, and school personnel-on internalizing and externalizing symptoms in adolescents exposed to rocket attacks. Data were based on 362 Israeli adolescents (median age = 14), chronically exposed to rockets from the Gaza Strip, for whom robust effects of exposure on internalizing and externalizing symptoms were reported during the 2009-2010 period (Henrich & Shahar, 2013). New analyses revealed that perceived family social support assessed in 2009 buffered against the effect of exposure to rocket attacks on depression, aggression, and severe violence during 2009-2010.

FINDINGS are consistent with a human-ecological perspective exposure to political violence and encourage the employment of family-based preventive interventions in afflicted areas. (PsycINFO Database Record

Language: en