Posttraumatic stress symptoms as a mediating factor on the effects of exposure to community violence among children in Cape Town, South Africa.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Shields, Nancy E. Nadasen, Kathy Pierce, Lois
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Research conducted over the past 20 years has linked exposure to violence to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children both in the United States and South Africa, but very little research has investigated PTSD as a mediating variable between exposure to violence and other problems. The purpose of the current research was to determine if PTSD acts as a mediating variable between exposure to violence and depression, and exposure to violence and aggressive and violent behavior at school among a sample of 247 South African children. Regression analysis suggested that PTSD mediated the effects of exposure to violence on depression, whereas the effect of exposure to violence on aggression and violent behavior was only direct. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for intervention and treatment.
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DOI	10.1891/0886-6708.24.6.786
PubMed reference number	20055215
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	6
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://www.safetylit.org/citations/ild_request_form.php?article_id=citjournalarticle_179523_23
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.24.6.786
Journal	Violence and victims
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article