Abstract
Directing attention to the Bosnian experience, this chapter focuses on the critical area of adolescent-perceived social support during war and disaster. It details the theoreticallyjustified development of a new multi-sector measure of social support and provides a series of tests to determine its reliability and validity. It concludes with a series of recommendations on how future research in this area should be directed, with the hope that with a more fundamental understanding of youth and political violence, and particularly the role of social support, interventions can be more clearly targeted to need.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Adolescents and War |
| Subtitle of host publication | How Youth Deal with Political Violence |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199894116 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780195343359 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- General Psychology
Keywords
- Adolescents
- Bosnia
- Children
- Coping
- Disaster
- Political violence
- War
- Youth