The Role of Objective and Subjective Experiences, Direct and Media Exposure, Social and Organizational Support, and Educational and Gender Effects in the Prediction of Children Posttraumatic Stress Reaction One Year after Calamity.

Abstract

Eighty-three students and one teacher died when a powerful earthquake hit eastern Turkey at 3:27 in the morning. The boarding school at which they were residents was destroyed. The purpose of this study was to test the direct, indirect, objective, and subjective exposure effect on the development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The impact of social and organizational support, as well as age and gender factors, were examined in relationship to the development of PTSD in this group. Participants included 270 disaster survivor elementary and secondary school students. One year after the disaster, each participant filled out a Children’s Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Reaction Index (CPTSD), trauma exposure, trauma experiencing, social support, and organizational support scale. Contributing factors were predicted with a stepwise regression analysis. A combination of direct, indirect, objective exposure scores, subjective exposure scores, gender, age, organizational and social support variables accounted for 17% of the PTSD scores. Direct exposure accounted for 6%, subjective exposure 5.4%, age 2%, food shortage 1%, and having a friend moving away after the disaster contributed 2.6% of the total variance. Subjective exposure (fear) and direct exposure appeared to be the most significant predictors. However, inconsistent with previous research studies, media exposure, gender, and physical exposure seemed to be especially poor contributors. Neither school nor home damage, the death of relatives or friends, or gas, water, and electric shortages contributed significantly to the results. However, fear experienced during the disaster, food shortages and the loss of a friend who moved away after the earthquake were all powerful predictors. Protective factors, which can strengthen or modify the individual's ability to cope, include healthy family functioning, support from peers and family members, organizing a social network, and the utilization of civil organizations. Thus, researcher and practitioner should pay attention to those predictive and protective factors.

Göçün Halk Sağlığı Sorunu Olarak Ruh Sağlığı Açısından Değerlendirilmesi

“…Çocuklarda dışlanma nedeniyle uyku düzeninde bozulmalar da görülebilmektedir. Bu gibi durumlarda yeterli destek sağlanamazsa travma sonrası stres bozukluğu, depresyon, anksiyete ve somatik problemlerin görülme sıklığı artabilmektedir (38).…”

Human dimension of the 1999 Marmara earthquakes in Turkey: Traumatic menthal health effects and consequences

“…For children, efforts were also made by an Istanbulbased non-profit organization, the Children Foundation (1999) to extensively study the disaster area in order to suggest a trauma center for children. There were also other studies conducted after the earthquake for the purpose of screening, epidemiology or evaluation, and identification of emotional distress students (Bulut, 2010;Bulut, 2018).…”

“…Cataclysmic events, and earthquakes, in particular, have a wide range of consequences, ranging from physical injuries to the loss of social relationships, fear-arousal, and other unpredictable and highly psychological destruction. For this reason, environmental and clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and epidemiologists over the years have conducted studies to outline various dimensional impacts of earthquakes (Galea et al, 2005;Bonanno et al, 2006;Bulut, 2018). In all those studies, earthquakes are said to pose one of the most dangerous types of natural disasters due to their life-threatening, unpredictabilities, and uncontrollable nature (Başoğlu and Mineka, 1992).…”

Göçmen Çocuk Ve Ergenleri̇n Eği̇ti̇m Engelleri̇, Psi̇koloji̇k Sorunlari Ve Çözüm Öneri̇leri̇ Üzeri̇ne Bi̇r Araştirma

“…Bu sorun kişinin kendisiyle, ailesiyle ve sosyal çevresiyle olan ilişkilerini etkiler (Kaptanoğlu, 2003). TSSB'yi yordayan değişkenler incelendiğinde travmatik olaya maruz kalma, yaş, cinsiyet, kurumsal ve sosyal destek olduğu bulunmuştur (Bulut, 2018).…”