Communal bereavement and resilience in the aftermath of a terrorist event: Evidence from a natural experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Sociological analyses of the psychological distress experienced by persons indirectly exposed to traumatic stressors have been conceptualized as a form of communal bereavement, defined by Catalano and Hartig (2001) as the experience of distress among persons not attached to the deceased. Their theory predicts communal bereavement responses particularly in the setting of loss of essential state, religious, or economic institutions.

Objective

To estimate the extent to which the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. World Trade Center had a causal effect on psychological distress nationwide.

Methods

We used a difference-in-differences framework applied to repeated cross-sectional data from more than 300,000 participants in the 2000 and 2001 Behavioral Risk Fac

SUBMITTER: Tsai AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4643388 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature