Tsunami, war, and cumulative risk in the lives of Sri Lankan schoolchildren

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1176-1191

  Catani, Claudia ^a   Gewirtz, Abigail H ^b   Wieling, Elizabeth ^b   Schauer, Elizabeth ^c   Elbert, Thomas ^d   Neuner, Frank ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Vivo ^*  (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISASTER; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SRI LANKA; TSUNAMI; VIOLENCE; WAR; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISASTERS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SRI LANKA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TSUNAMIS; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 77955140824     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01461.x     Document Type: Article

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