2008-10-01
"i'm not really afraid of Osama Bin Laden!" fear of terrorism in dutch children
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Publication
Journal of Child and Family Studies , Volume 17 - Issue 5 p. 706- 713
We examined to what extent children in The Netherlands are affected by the threat of terrorism. For this purpose, a sample of school children living in Rotterdam or adjacent satellites (N = 216) completed a fear survey that included a number of terrorism-related items, and were confronted with ambiguous vignettes to measure threat-related interpretation bias. The results demonstrated that although a number of terrorism-related items (i.e., bombing attacks, explosions in a bus or subway) listed high in a ranking of most intense childhood fears, very few children made terrorist-related interpretations of ambiguous situations.
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| doi.org/10.1007/s10826-007-9185-7, hdl.handle.net/1765/15127 | |
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| Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
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Muris, P., Mayer, B., van Eijk, S., & Dongen, M. (2008). "i'm not really afraid of Osama Bin Laden!" fear of terrorism in dutch children. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 17(5), 706–713. doi:10.1007/s10826-007-9185-7 |
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