TY - JOUR
T1 - Adolescents on the Front Line
T2 - Exposure to Shelling Via Television and the Parental Role
AU - Lavi, Tamar
AU - Itzhaky, Liat
AU - Menachem, Mazal
AU - Solomon, Zahava
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Washington School of Psychiatry.
PY - 2016/1/2
Y1 - 2016/1/2
N2 - Objectives: Research suggests that exposure to traumatic content via television inadvertently increases posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) as well as psychological distress, especially among adolescent viewers. The aim of the current study was to assess the effect of news consumption on PTSS and general distress among adolescents who live in a war area, as well as to examine the role of parents as intermediaries of news broadcasting. Method: A total of 65 adolescents who live in a war zone filled out the Child Post Traumatic Stress Reaction Index, the Brief Symptoms Inventory, and a scale measuring the level of real-life exposure, news broadcast consumption, and parents as intermediaries of news broadcasting. Results: A main effect for real-life exposure on both PTSS and general distress was revealed. Interestingly, a three-way interaction between real-life exposure, television exposure, and parents as intermediators was found for general distress. Only under low real-life exposure did parents as intermediaries buffer the effect of television exposure on general distress. Conclusions: Parental intermediation of news broadcasting of traumatic events, especially in situations of continuous, real-life exposure, is essential.
AB - Objectives: Research suggests that exposure to traumatic content via television inadvertently increases posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) as well as psychological distress, especially among adolescent viewers. The aim of the current study was to assess the effect of news consumption on PTSS and general distress among adolescents who live in a war area, as well as to examine the role of parents as intermediaries of news broadcasting. Method: A total of 65 adolescents who live in a war zone filled out the Child Post Traumatic Stress Reaction Index, the Brief Symptoms Inventory, and a scale measuring the level of real-life exposure, news broadcast consumption, and parents as intermediaries of news broadcasting. Results: A main effect for real-life exposure on both PTSS and general distress was revealed. Interestingly, a three-way interaction between real-life exposure, television exposure, and parents as intermediators was found for general distress. Only under low real-life exposure did parents as intermediaries buffer the effect of television exposure on general distress. Conclusions: Parental intermediation of news broadcasting of traumatic events, especially in situations of continuous, real-life exposure, is essential.
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U2 - 10.1080/00332747.2015.1084471
DO - 10.1080/00332747.2015.1084471
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AN - SCOPUS:84978517037
SN - 0033-2747
VL - 79
SP - 85
EP - 94
JO - Psychiatry (New York)
JF - Psychiatry (New York)
IS - 1
ER -