Fran H Norris
Biographic Data
| ID | 85025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fran H Norris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fran H |
| FAMILY NAME | Norris |
| SIGNATURE | NORRIS F H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 979 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Cognitive behavioral therapy for postdisaster distress
Results suggest that CBT-PD is appropriate for a range of individuals with moderate to severe distress and that it has benefit both early on as well as two years postdisaster. Findings add to growing literature that CBT-PD should be considered as one important component of a larger disaster response system. (PsycINFO Database Record
A question of who, not if
Reparative adaptational impacts could guide clinicians in treating children of survivors. (PsycINFO Database Record
Multigenerational legacies of trauma
To operationalize the theory of Trauma and the Continuity of Self: A Multidimensional, Multidisciplinary, Integrative Framework (Danieli, 1998), we created a testable model using factors in Holocaust survivors' lives that may have affected their offspring's adaptation. A web-based sample of 422 adult children of survivors completed a 3-part inventory assessing multigenerational legacies of trauma. To explain the severity of the child's reparative…
The Danieli Inventory of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma, Part II
The impacts of the Holocaust on children of survivors have been widely investigated. However, consensus is limited, and no validated measures have been tailored with or to them. We aimed to develop and validate a scale that measures these specific impacts (Part II of the Danieli Inventory of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma). We studied 484 adult children of survivors who participated in a cross-sectional web-based survey in English or Hebrew…
The Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (Cart)
In Brief Community resilience has emerged as a construct to support and foster healthy individual, family, and community adaptation to mass casualty incidents. The Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART) is a publicly available theory-based and evidence-informed community intervention designed to enhance community resilience by bringing stakeholders together to address community issues in a process that includes assessment, feedback, plan…
Prevalence, Risk, and Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Across Ethnic and Racial Minority Groups in the United States
OBJECTIVES: We assess whether posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) varies in prevalence, diagnostic criteria endorsement, and type and frequency of potentially traumatic events (PTEs) among a nationally representative US sample of 5071 non-Latino whites, 3264 Latinos, 2178 Asians, 4249 African Americans, and 1476 Afro-Caribbeans. METHODS: PTSD and other psychiatric disorders were evaluated using the World Mental Health-Composite International Dia…
Public Health Consequences of Terrorism on Maternal–Child Health in New York City and Madrid
Inequality, Socioeconomic Status, and Social Support in Post-Disaster Mental Health in Mexico
Disasters highlight the vulnerability of people who have limited access to resources. However, based on research from Mexico, we seek—in the context of disasters—to qualify the generalization that mental health is associated with social inequality and individual socioeconomic status. We collected data on socioeconomic status, social support, and depression in two stormimpacted cities (n=581) and four control cities (n=2,509) in Mexico. Two years …
Exploring community resilience in workforce communities of first responders serving Katrina survivors
Community resilience activities were assessed in workplace teams that became first responders for Hurricane Katrina survivors. Community resilience was assessed by a survey, focus groups, and key informant interviews. On the survey, 90 first responders ranked their team's disaster response performance as high on community resilience activities. The same participants, interviewed in 11 focus groups and 3 key informant interviews, discussed how the…
Design for Data Quality in a Multisite Cross-Sectional and Panel Study
The authors address the issues faced while collecting survey data as part of a large multisite, multidisciplinary long-term project using interviewers rather than self-administered questionnaires in a country in which the researchers are not native. The issues pertain to the collection of high-quality data that accurately measure the variables of interest from which generalizations can be made. Three issues were prominent: potential cross-cultura…
Measuring Capacities for Community Resilience
Looking for resilience
Longitudinal linkages between perceived social support and posttraumatic stress symptoms
The authors examined social causation and social selection explanations for the association between perceptions of social support and psychological distress. Data came from a sample of 557 victims of natural disaster in Mexico. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that social causation (more social support leading to less posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]) explained the support‐to‐distress relationship in the earlier postdisaster ph…
Financial and social circumstances and the incidence and course of PTSD in Mississippi during the first two years after Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the most devastating natural disaster to hit the United States in the past 75 years. The authors conducted interviews of 810 persons who were representative of adult residents living in the 23 southernmost counties of Mississippi before Hurricane Katrina. The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since Hurricane Katrina was 22.5%. The determinants of PTSD were female gender, experience of hurricane‐related finan…
The Effects of “Self-Help” Precautionary Measures on Criminal Victimization and Fear
“Self-help” precautionary measures taken at the individual or household level are widely used by citizens to confront the problems of crime and fear. In this article, we assess the effectiveness of precautionary behavior as it varies naturally within a general population sample. Using data from a two-wave panel study of victims and nonvictims in Kentucky, and controlling for the effects of nine other “vulnerability factors” in hierarchical regres…
Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness
Communities have the potential to function effectively and adapt successfully in the aftermath of disasters. Drawing upon literatures in several disciplines, we present a theory of resilience that encompasses contemporary understandings of stress, adaptation, wellness, and resource dynamics. Community resilience is a process linking a network of adaptive capacities (resources with dynamic attributes) to adaptation after a disturbance or adversity…
Challenges in Implementing Disaster Mental Health Programs
The Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program grants supplemental federal funding to states and territories for individual and community crisis intervention services in the aftermath of presidentially declared disasters. Little research has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of these services, and few data exist to guide policies and programs. A qualitative study of thirty-eight state program directors (representing 95 percent o…
Empirical Investigation of the Conflict and Flexibility Models of Bisexuality
The present study was designed to investigate theoretical assumptions underlying Zinik's conflict and flexibility models of bisexuality (1985). Of particular interest were potential differences among heterosexual, gay/lesbian, and bisexual individuals on measures of flexibility and sexuality conflict. Participants were recruited from an urban jury pool and from gay, lesbian, and bisexual groups. The final sample included three gender-balanced sex…
Social Support Mobilization and Deterioration after Mexico's 1999 Flood
Samples of adults representative of Teziutlán, Puebla, and Villahermosa, Tobasco, were interviewed 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after the devastating 1999 flood and mudslides. The interview contained multiple measures of social support that had been normed for Mexico. Comparisons between sample data and population norms suggested minimal mobilization of received support and substantial deterioration of perceived support and social embeddedness. Socia…
Domestic Violence and Housing Problems
This study examined housing problems and homelessness after separation in a sample of 110 women who had experienced domestic violence. Of the sample, 38% reported homelessness. Similar percentages reported housing problems (e.g., late paying rent, skipping meals, threatened with eviction). Predictors of more housing problems included experiencing a greater severity of violence, contacting fewer formal systems, having less informational support, a…
Qualitative analysis of social support and conflict among Mexican and Mexican‐American disaster survivors
We describe in this study the various ways that survivors may experience social support and conflict after a disaster. Using unstructured interviews, 25 Mexicans/Mexican Americans (14 women, 11 men) were asked to recount the ways that they received support, as well as the ways they experienced conflict. Interviews occurred across three cities: Guadalajara, Jalisco (n = 9), Homestead, Florida (n = 6), and Puerto Angel, Oaxaca (n = 10). Recurrent t…
Disaster Victims Speak
Results for 160 samples of disaster victims were coded as to sample type, disaster type, disaster location, outcomes and risk factors observed, and overall severity of impairment. In order of frequency, outcomes included specific psychological problems, nonspecific distress, health problems, chronic problems in living, resource loss, and problems specific to youth. Regression analyses showed that samples were more likely to be impaired if they we…
Disaster Victims Speak
On the basis of the literature reviewed in Part I of this two-part series (Norris, Friedman, Watson, Byrne, Diaz, and Kaniasty, this volume), the authors recommend early intervention following disasters, especially when the disaster is associated with extreme and widespread damage to property, ongoing financial problems for the stricken community, violence that resulted from human intent, and a high prevalence of trauma in the form of injuries, t…
Disasters in Urban Context
Ethnicity, Culture, and Disaster Response
A sample of 404 residents of southern Florida were interviewed in their own homes six months after Hurricane Andrew. The sample was composed of equal numbers of hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and Caucasians. Most Latinos (n = 97) elected to complete the interview in Spanish; all other interviews were conducted in English. Ethnic groups differed strongly in the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Caucasian disaster victims showed …
Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness
Communities have the potential to function effectively and adapt successfully in the aftermath of disasters. Drawing upon literatures in several disciplines, we present a theory of resilience that encompasses contemporary understandings of stress, adaptation, wellness, and resource dynamics. Community resilience is a process linking a network of adaptive capacities (resources with dynamic attributes) to adaptation after a disturbance or adversity…
Measuring Capacities for Community Resilience
Received and perceived social support in times of stress
A test of the social support deterioration model in the context of natural disaster
This prospective longitudinal study examined stress-mediating potentials of 3 types of social support: social embeddedness, perceived support from nonkin, and perceived support from kin. As participants in a statewide panel study, 222 older adults were interviewed once before and twice after a severe flood. It was hypothesized that disaster exposure (stress) would influence depression directly and indirectly, through deterioration of social suppo…
Looking for resilience
Ethnicity, Culture, and Disaster Response
A sample of 404 residents of southern Florida were interviewed in their own homes six months after Hurricane Andrew. The sample was composed of equal numbers of hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and Caucasians. Most Latinos (n = 97) elected to complete the interview in Spanish; all other interviews were conducted in English. Ethnic groups differed strongly in the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Caucasian disaster victims showed …
Domestic Violence and Housing Problems
This study examined housing problems and homelessness after separation in a sample of 110 women who had experienced domestic violence. Of the sample, 38% reported homelessness. Similar percentages reported housing problems (e.g., late paying rent, skipping meals, threatened with eviction). Predictors of more housing problems included experiencing a greater severity of violence, contacting fewer formal systems, having less informational support, a…
Help‐Seeking Comfort and Receiving Social Support
Examined help‐seeking comfort and receiving social support among Latinos, African Americans, and European Americans across two contexts: in a communitywide emergency (Hurricane Andrew) and 2 years later in a nonemergency situation. In general, help‐seeking comfort was a strong predictor of received support. Notwithstanding many similarities between the groups, the effects of ethnicity differed according to the context. In emergency, all groups re…
In search of altruistic community
Twelve months after Hurricane Hugo, 1,000 disaster victims and nonvictims were asked about social support they exchanged following the hurricane. Victims of disaster received and provided very high levels of tangible, informationa, and emotional support. Disaster exposure (loss and harm) was a strong predictor of help received and a modest predictor of help provided. However, postdisaster help was not distributed equally and disaster exposure was…
Social Support Mobilization and Deterioration after Mexico's 1999 Flood
Samples of adults representative of Teziutlán, Puebla, and Villahermosa, Tobasco, were interviewed 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after the devastating 1999 flood and mudslides. The interview contained multiple measures of social support that had been normed for Mexico. Comparisons between sample data and population norms suggested minimal mobilization of received support and substantial deterioration of perceived support and social embeddedness. Socia…
Social support and victims of crime
Investigated the buffering properties of six types of social support (three perceived, three received) with regard to four psychological consequences (depression, anxiety, fear of crime, hostility) of criminal victimization (violent crime, property crime). These relationships were examined using longitudinal data collected from a sample composed of representative subsamples of victims and nonvictims. Effects of the perceived support measures (per…
Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults
Fran H. Norris, Stanley A. Murrell, Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 424-437
A longitudinal study of the effects of various crime prevention strategies on criminal victimization, fear of crime, and psychological distress
Examined the effects of precautionary behavior on subsequent criminal victimization, fear of crime, and psychological distress. A sample of 538 adults was interviewed three times at 6-month intervals. Four different aspects of precaution were assessed: vigilance (alertness), locks (access control), neighbors (informal cooperation), and professionals (formal programs). In logistic regressions that controlled for 14 risk factors, precaution had no …
Prior experience as a moderator of disaster impact on anxiety symptoms in older adults
As participants in a panel study, 234 older adults were interviewed before, as well as after, serious flooding occurred in southeastern Kentucky. Floods are not uncommon in this area, but these were more widespread than most, and resulted in both previously exposed and newly exposed subsamples of disaster victims. Flood impact was measured at both personal and community levels. With preflood symptoms controlled, there were modest flood effects on…
Qualitative analysis of social support and conflict among Mexican and Mexican‐American disaster survivors
We describe in this study the various ways that survivors may experience social support and conflict after a disaster. Using unstructured interviews, 25 Mexicans/Mexican Americans (14 women, 11 men) were asked to recount the ways that they received support, as well as the ways they experienced conflict. Interviews occurred across three cities: Guadalajara, Jalisco (n = 9), Homestead, Florida (n = 6), and Puerto Angel, Oaxaca (n = 10). Recurrent t…
Postdisaster Social Support in the United States and Mexico
A measure of the social support received from family, friends, and outsiders was administered 6 months after Hurricanes Andrew (non-Hispanic n = 270, Hispanic n = 134) and Paulina (Mexican n = 200) and to a normative sample (n = 1,289) representative of urban Mexico. Pilot work with bilingual participants established that equivalent scores were yielded by Spanish and English versions of the instrument. Exemplars of helping showed similar rank-ord…
Crime, social status, and alienation
Explored the ecological consequences of crime and violence. Selected to reflect alienation between individuals and their settings, the criterion measures were fear of crime, avoidance behavior, anomia, and external locus of control. Exposure to crime was assessed at both individual and community levels. Using data from a large statewide sample of adult Kentuckians, hierarchical regression analyses were performed in which the criterion variables w…
The Effects of “Self-Help” Precautionary Measures on Criminal Victimization and Fear
“Self-help” precautionary measures taken at the individual or household level are widely used by citizens to confront the problems of crime and fear. In this article, we assess the effectiveness of precautionary behavior as it varies naturally within a general population sample. Using data from a two-wave panel study of victims and nonvictims in Kentucky, and controlling for the effects of nine other “vulnerability factors” in hierarchical regres…
Transitory Impact of Life-Event Stress on Psychological Symptoms in Older Adults
A probability sample of 1,429 adults aged 55 and older was interviewed in their homes three times at six-month intervals. Measures of symptoms, social support, and education were obtained before measures of life-event stress. A LISREL analysis of three waves and two intervals of data yielded a goodness offit of .989 between the data and the model. For both intervals, increases in stress led to increases in symptoms, which supported the Dohrenwend…
Resources, life events, and changes in positive affect and depression in older adults
Hypotheses from a prospective conceptual framework were tested on a sample of 1,166 adults, age 55 and older, who were interviewed three times at 6-month intervals. Older adults with stronger resources had significantly more positive psychological states initially than those with weaker resources, and this advantage was maintained regardless of the levels of life events. There were significant main effects for desirable events and for undesirable…
Empirical Investigation of the Conflict and Flexibility Models of Bisexuality
The present study was designed to investigate theoretical assumptions underlying Zinik's conflict and flexibility models of bisexuality (1985). Of particular interest were potential differences among heterosexual, gay/lesbian, and bisexual individuals on measures of flexibility and sexuality conflict. Participants were recruited from an urban jury pool and from gay, lesbian, and bisexual groups. The final sample included three gender-balanced sex…
Resources, life events, and changes in psychological states
Concluding Comments As researchers, we are intrigued by the complexities and questions involved in the study of resources and life events. As community psychologists, we hope this framework will contribute to improving the well‐being of human groups. We believe that knowing those resources most likely to be effective in buffering or boosting a particular event should guide the planning of programs for groups likely to experience that event. Moreo…
The Impact of Natural Disaster on the Health of Older Adults
James F. Phifer, Krzysztof Z. Kaniasty, Fran H. Norris, The Impact of Natural Disaster on the Health of Older Adults: A Multiwave Prospective Study, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 65-78
Challenges in Implementing Disaster Mental Health Programs
The Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program grants supplemental federal funding to states and territories for individual and community crisis intervention services in the aftermath of presidentially declared disasters. Little research has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of these services, and few data exist to guide policies and programs. A qualitative study of thirty-eight state program directors (representing 95 percent o…
Design for Data Quality in a Multisite Cross-Sectional and Panel Study
The authors address the issues faced while collecting survey data as part of a large multisite, multidisciplinary long-term project using interviewers rather than self-administered questionnaires in a country in which the researchers are not native. The issues pertain to the collection of high-quality data that accurately measure the variables of interest from which generalizations can be made. Three issues were prominent: potential cross-cultura…
Resources, life events, and changes in psychological states
Concluding Comments As researchers, we are intrigued by the complexities and questions involved in the study of resources and life events. As community psychologists, we hope this framework will contribute to improving the well‐being of human groups. We believe that knowing those resources most likely to be effective in buffering or boosting a particular event should guide the planning of programs for groups likely to experience that event. Moreo…
Quality of life as the criterion for need assessment and community psychology
A "QOL-Contribution" model for resource allocation decisions is proposed that integrates concepts and values from community psychology, need assessment, and quality of life (QOL) studies. QOL is taken as the criterion for establishing the goodness-of-fit between a population and its environment. It is assumed that the characteristics of a given human group interact with the resources and the stressors of its environment, with its level of QOL as …
Resources, life events, and changes in positive affect and depression in older adults
Hypotheses from a prospective conceptual framework were tested on a sample of 1,166 adults, age 55 and older, who were interviewed three times at 6-month intervals. Older adults with stronger resources had significantly more positive psychological states initially than those with weaker resources, and this advantage was maintained regardless of the levels of life events. There were significant main effects for desirable events and for undesirable…
Distribution and desirability of life events in older adults
Estimates of the natural distribution of environmental demands on older adults are provided here. Frequencies of occurrence over a one-year period for 54 life events relevant to older adults are reported for a sample of 1102 men and 1758 women representative of the population aged 55 and older in Kentucky. Estimates of the absolute number of noninstitutionalized Kentucky older adults who would experience selected events in a year are thus made po…
Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults
Fran H. Norris, Stanley A. Murrell, Protective Function of Resources Related to Life Events, Global Stress, and Depression in Older Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 424-437
Transitory Impact of Life-Event Stress on Psychological Symptoms in Older Adults
A probability sample of 1,429 adults aged 55 and older was interviewed in their homes three times at six-month intervals. Measures of symptoms, social support, and education were obtained before measures of life-event stress. A LISREL analysis of three waves and two intervals of data yielded a goodness offit of .989 between the data and the model. For both intervals, increases in stress led to increases in symptoms, which supported the Dohrenwend…
Prior experience as a moderator of disaster impact on anxiety symptoms in older adults
As participants in a panel study, 234 older adults were interviewed before, as well as after, serious flooding occurred in southeastern Kentucky. Floods are not uncommon in this area, but these were more widespread than most, and resulted in both previously exposed and newly exposed subsamples of disaster victims. Flood impact was measured at both personal and community levels. With preflood symptoms controlled, there were modest flood effects on…
The Impact of Natural Disaster on the Health of Older Adults
James F. Phifer, Krzysztof Z. Kaniasty, Fran H. Norris, The Impact of Natural Disaster on the Health of Older Adults: A Multiwave Prospective Study, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 65-78
Epidemiology of trauma
Social support and victims of crime
Investigated the buffering properties of six types of social support (three perceived, three received) with regard to four psychological consequences (depression, anxiety, fear of crime, hostility) of criminal victimization (violent crime, property crime). These relationships were examined using longitudinal data collected from a sample composed of representative subsamples of victims and nonvictims. Effects of the perceived support measures (per…
Crime, social status, and alienation
Explored the ecological consequences of crime and violence. Selected to reflect alienation between individuals and their settings, the criterion measures were fear of crime, avoidance behavior, anomia, and external locus of control. Exposure to crime was assessed at both individual and community levels. Using data from a large statewide sample of adult Kentuckians, hierarchical regression analyses were performed in which the criterion variables w…
A longitudinal study of the effects of various crime prevention strategies on criminal victimization, fear of crime, and psychological distress
Examined the effects of precautionary behavior on subsequent criminal victimization, fear of crime, and psychological distress. A sample of 538 adults was interviewed three times at 6-month intervals. Four different aspects of precaution were assessed: vigilance (alertness), locks (access control), neighbors (informal cooperation), and professionals (formal programs). In logistic regressions that controlled for 14 risk factors, precaution had no …
A test of the social support deterioration model in the context of natural disaster
This prospective longitudinal study examined stress-mediating potentials of 3 types of social support: social embeddedness, perceived support from nonkin, and perceived support from kin. As participants in a statewide panel study, 222 older adults were interviewed once before and twice after a severe flood. It was hypothesized that disaster exposure (stress) would influence depression directly and indirectly, through deterioration of social suppo…
Culture and Domestic Violence
This study examined the predictors of domestic violence within a sample of 60 immigrant Latinas, of whom 30 had sought assistance for abuse and 30 had sought other family services. Hypotheses were derived from several frameworks relevant to understanding abuse—intrapsychic (learned helplessness), interpersonal (family violence), and feminist theory. Findings related to the specific formulations were subsequently combined into a model of abuse in …
In search of altruistic community
Twelve months after Hurricane Hugo, 1,000 disaster victims and nonvictims were asked about social support they exchanged following the hurricane. Victims of disaster received and provided very high levels of tangible, informationa, and emotional support. Disaster exposure (loss and harm) was a strong predictor of help received and a modest predictor of help provided. However, postdisaster help was not distributed equally and disaster exposure was…
System influences on posthomicide beliefs and distress
Criminal justice system experiences in 150 family members of homicide victims were investigated. The study had two goals: (a) to document the experiences of homicide survivors in the criminal justice system, including case outcomes, criminal justice system activities, and satisfaction with system personnel; and (b) to determine if experiences with the police impacted posthomicide beliefs (cognitive assumptions about the world and one's relationsh…
Received and perceived social support in times of stress
Predicting Evacuation in Two Major Disasters
The complex and somewhat bewildering phenomenon of why people sometimes decide not to evacuate from a dangerous situation is influenced by a combination of individual characteristics and 3 basic social psychological processes: (a) risk perception, (b) social influence, and (c) access to resources. This study used a combined sample of 777 adults interviewed after Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew. Although numerous variables significantly predicted evacu…
Heterosexual Risk for HIV Among Puerto Rican Women
Help‐Seeking Comfort and Receiving Social Support
Examined help‐seeking comfort and receiving social support among Latinos, African Americans, and European Americans across two contexts: in a communitywide emergency (Hurricane Andrew) and 2 years later in a nonemergency situation. In general, help‐seeking comfort was a strong predictor of received support. Notwithstanding many similarities between the groups, the effects of ethnicity differed according to the context. In emergency, all groups re…
Postdisaster Social Support in the United States and Mexico
A measure of the social support received from family, friends, and outsiders was administered 6 months after Hurricanes Andrew (non-Hispanic n = 270, Hispanic n = 134) and Paulina (Mexican n = 200) and to a normative sample (n = 1,289) representative of urban Mexico. Pilot work with bilingual participants established that equivalent scores were yielded by Spanish and English versions of the instrument. Exemplars of helping showed similar rank-ord…
Disaster Victims Speak
Results for 160 samples of disaster victims were coded as to sample type, disaster type, disaster location, outcomes and risk factors observed, and overall severity of impairment. In order of frequency, outcomes included specific psychological problems, nonspecific distress, health problems, chronic problems in living, resource loss, and problems specific to youth. Regression analyses showed that samples were more likely to be impaired if they we…
Disaster Victims Speak
On the basis of the literature reviewed in Part I of this two-part series (Norris, Friedman, Watson, Byrne, Diaz, and Kaniasty, this volume), the authors recommend early intervention following disasters, especially when the disaster is associated with extreme and widespread damage to property, ongoing financial problems for the stricken community, violence that resulted from human intent, and a high prevalence of trauma in the form of injuries, t…
Disasters in Urban Context
Ethnicity, Culture, and Disaster Response
A sample of 404 residents of southern Florida were interviewed in their own homes six months after Hurricane Andrew. The sample was composed of equal numbers of hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and Caucasians. Most Latinos (n = 97) elected to complete the interview in Spanish; all other interviews were conducted in English. Ethnic groups differed strongly in the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Caucasian disaster victims showed …
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