- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Exposure to community violence and the reporting of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among adolescents, 1997
- Creator:
- McAdams, Amy H.
- Date of Original:
- 1997-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This study examined exposure to community violence and the reporting of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among adolescents. The study was based on the premise that there was a link between exposure to community violence and PTSD symptoms. The convenience sample consisted of 41 low-income youth between the ages of 11 and 15 years old. It was hypothesized that there was a statistically significant relationship between violence exposure and reporting PTSD symptoms. The researcher examined exposure to violence as a victim and as a witness and discovered both were significantly related to reporting PTSD symptoms. Also of interest to the researcher was the PTSD diagnostic criteria. Fifteen percent met all three symptom criteria for a diagnosis of PTSD. The findings revealed a relatively high degree of exposure to violence among this convenient sample. Being victims and witnesses to violence in the community were strongly associated to PTSD symtpmotology.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1997_mcadams_amy_h
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
