"I'm Not Really Afraid of Osama Bin Laden!" Fear of Terrorism in Dutch Children

Autor/inn/en	Muris, Peter; Mayer, Birgit; van Eijk, Sandra; van Dongen, Marit
Titel	"I'm Not Really Afraid of Osama Bin Laden!" Fear of Terrorism in Dutch Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Child and Family Studies, 17 (2008) 5, S.706-713 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1062-1024
DOI	10.1007/s10826-007-9185-7
Schlagwörter	Terrorism; Foreign Countries; Fear; Student Attitudes; Anxiety; Vignettes; Attitude Measures; Child Safety; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Terrorismus; Ausland; Furcht; Schülerverhalten; Angst; Niederlande
Abstract	We examined to what extent children in The Netherlands are affected by the threat of terrorism. For this purpose, a sample of school children living in Rotterdam or adjacent satellites (N = 216) completed a fear survey that included a number of terrorism-related items, and were confronted with ambiguous vignettes to measure threat-related interpretation bias. The results demonstrated that although a number of terrorism-related items (i.e., bombing attacks, explosions in a bus or subway) listed high in a ranking of most intense childhood fears, very few children made terrorist-related interpretations of ambiguous situations. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10