APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Terrorism Exacerbates the Internalizing-Victimization Escalating Cycle
- Sameera Ramjan
St. John's University - Feng Shi
St. John's University - Eddy Auguste
St. John's University - Castro Daniela
St. John's University - Celeste Sangiorgio
St. John's University - Ernest Hodges
St. John's University
Abstract
An adolescent cohort of 6th and 7th graders (N = 273) that experienced 9/11 showed a stronger escalating cycle between internalizing difficulties and peer victimization (internalizing predicted increases in victimization which in turn predicted increases in victimization) than an adolescent cohort that did not experience 9/11 (N = 224).
Adolescent