2019, Number 1
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Rev Elec Psic Izt 2019; 22 (1)
Symptomatology of anxiety on boys and girls who have witness’s violence in the street living in Ciudad Juarez
Quintana MLN, Maldonado SEB
Language: Spanish
References: 24
Page: 279-292
PDF size: 852.75 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Ciudad Juarez is a city with high rate of violence, from 2006 to 2010,
murders increased 20%. During the year, was 2861 murders. The
objective of this work is to anayze the anxiety suffered by boys and
girls, living in Ciudad Juárez, that have witnessed scences of violence
on the streets. To do this, an expo facto research has been done to
compare the risk of developing anxiety in child witnesses of violence on
the street, against a control group. A sample of 59 boys and girls
between the ages of 7 and 12 years old has been selected. Twentynine
of them had been a witness on an extremely violent event on the
street (robbery, gun fire, people with bullet wounds, quarrels). The
remaining 30 were control group. The following instruments were used:
Children’s Exposure of Violence questionnaire (CEV), parent’s Ad hoc
interview, Screen of Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders
(SCARED) and Four Index of Social Status. The results show that the
scores of the anxiety scale (SCARED) were higher for the study group
than for the control group.
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