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Melissa Janson; Erika D. Felix; Krzysztof Kaniasty; Eduardo A. Lugo-Hernández; Yarimar Rosa-Rodríguez; Glorisa Canino – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The current multi-university, multi-disaster study examined the impact of natural disaster exposure on identity-related distress through life stressors and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). Participants: Young adult university students (n = 665, 77% female, M = 20.5 years old) participated in Wave (W) 1. Half provided contact…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stress Variables, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Natural Disasters
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Van Der Zant, Tamara; Dix, Katherine L. – Australian Journal of Education, 2023
The significant disruption of COVID-19 on schooling has heightened concerns about its impact on educators' wellbeing. The current study examined how educators' worry regarding the COVID-19 pandemic compared to their worry about other extreme events, such as natural disasters and critical incidents (a death or suicide of a child, young person, or…
Descriptors: Anxiety, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
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Allaire, Franklin S. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2020
On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey's landfall brought the first-year students' first semester at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) to a standstill after only a week of classes. This natural disaster provided an opportunity to explore Hurricane Harvey's impacts phenomenologically with the 11 undergraduate participants. The present…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Weather, Natural Disasters
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Davis, Thompson E., III; Grills-Taquechel, Amie E.; Ollendick, Thomas H. – Behavior Therapy, 2010
The following study examined the reactions of university students to Hurricane Katrina. A group of 68 New Orleans area students who were displaced from their home universities as a result of the hurricane were matched on race, gender, and age to a sample of 68 students who had been enrolled at Louisiana State University (LSU) prior to the…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Coping
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Weems, Carl F.; Overstreet, Stacy – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
This article introduces the special section on child and adolescent mental health research in the context of Hurricane Katrina. We outline the purpose and intent of the special section and present an integrative perspective based on broad contextual theories of human development with which to think about the impact of disasters like Katrina. The…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Natural Disasters, Graduate Students, Adolescents
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology