APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
‘Just like Me’: Social Identity, Media Exposure, and the Stress of Terrorism
- Daniel Relihan
University of California, Irvine - Nickolas Jones
University of California Irvine - Roxane Cohen Silver
University of California Irvine - E. Alison Holman
University of California Irvine
Abstract
We studied distress among a representative national sample of Americans following the 2016 Orlando attack. We found that Hispanics and LGBT-people respectively reported greater distress and LGBT-people reported greater media exposure compared to controls. Results suggest that sharing a social identity with victims is an important risk factor of distress.
Social Groups/Social Relationships
